She bee back!!!

Here she is, you can also see dead brood and hatching bees

Ok a bit like Arnie, except this isn't the same queen bee that's back! The little ladies continue to surprise me, when their backs are up against the wall they come up trumps, seems they created a new queen out of nothing, just how did they do that I certainly can't see any sign of queen cells! The will to survive is a powerful force.

Not all plain sailing now though, the new queen isn't laying, so hasn't had her virgin flight yet, which is probably just as well because there are no drones in my hive, understandably! Just hope there are some in other hives locally at this time of the year, otherwise she is going to end up like Queen Elizabeth I and rather than it being the end of the royal line it will be the end of the hive with no new bees to take the colony forward into the new season :(

I doubt the mixed up weather is helping her cause much either, two mornings of frost interspersed with great flying weather!

On top of which the hive is full of granulated honey which the bes will have to work ten times harder at to convert into wax to create new breeding cells. Perhaps time to give them a helping hand put in some new foundation and feed them up with sugar solution?

Finally what to do with all that surplus granulated honey in the brood cells! Perhaps a call to the bee mentors is on the cards.