A quick inspection tonight, whilst there are some stores in the hive there doesn't seem much, with the new queen very busy laying eggs they must be getting through a lot of honey.
No sign of any activity in the way of building out honey comb in the super I added a few weeks ago. Hopefully they will start soon or it will be no honey again this year! :-( But guess there is still time.
I think part of the problem maybe that bees don't like to build out new foundation and create cells to store honey and having no honey last year I have no super frames with built out comb to give them a head start, was thinking that perhaps I should drop a super frame into the end of the brood box where they are more willing to create comb on new foundation and then swap it up to the super every week to try and get them to store honey up there? But probably best to let them be, they will do what they want to when they want to.
Will continue to feed them all the time they aren't filling the supers, I now use a tray feeder, the bees take the sugar solution from inside the plasticstrip in the middle, this stops them all drowning in the solution, well it does if they don't dislodge it in their hurry to get to the food, I have taped it down this year!
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