These bees are from brood that has been officially inspected and declared to be fair, not foul. Hooray! We don't need the worst kind of Guy Fawkes bonfire today.
It seems golden Rachael and her old guard have probably swarmed (it's rare that could have happened without us knowing about it, so maybe they went to the Folk Festival too) and also she has been superceded by a beautiful brown daughter (or possibly granddaughter) whose laying pattern is just fine.
We put in ApiLife Var wafers to protect Rachael's daughter's brood and took off a whole box of dear hard-working Rachael's spring honey.
Here is the bee coop today, with plastic tubs of honey frames we hope to extract and a wee hive where Malka's was which we hope to have a nuc move into.
Summer has begun.
So very exciting. I want to get a hive at school. So many of our kids see a bee and panic. I want them to learn about them.
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