Hmm decided if weather was nice today that despite what I said in last blog would have a quick look in hive, well the weather is nice, but as you can see bees are a bit busy. Think I still do need to check as not much pollen being flown into the hive, you can see one bee with pollen but there really should be lots of bees flying in with it, so rather than a quick look will go for a much more detailed inspection later today. Anyway I need to get that surplus drone brood out of the hive, well that's if it hasn't hatched yet and perhaps swap a brood frame in lower box for a smaller super frame so that I can cull drone brood and in turn varroa mite larvae as part of my varroa integrated management.
Why am I doubting that I saw the queen last time and she isn't in the bottom brood box? Bees, they're worse than having kids for worry, ok perhaps not :-)
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