Budding Cottage

Hive 5 When the LAN group visited, hive 3 had been about to swarm; so we took several frames of brood and stores from it, including two nice queen cells; and then created hive 5. Today on inspection the bees were building up nicely from the nuc of bees taken from hive 3 before it […]

Chris very kindly agreed to come over and give me the benefit of a second view on a couple of my hives.  Extremely generously, this second view extended to all 6 hives eventually and a marathon 3 hour beekeeping practical session… I am still playing around with advice on brood versus half brood; and trying […]