It's been two weeks since our last inspection and so Connie hive has swarmed for the fourth time this season! New resolution that we ensure we do weekly inspections from now on!!!!!!!! So we chose the best closed queen cell and an open queen cell and now wait for three weeks fingers crossed.
Beatrice hive is looking good, bees over 8 - 10 frames lots of bees busy in the super but not many stores in the brood box so we put a frame of honey I had saved from the spring into the hive. Did a treatment of hive clean because we missed them last treatment. Saw eggs larvae, capped over brood.
Adele looking good lots of eggs, larvae and capped over brood. A few play cups which we squeezed out. Didn't see any queens but not concerned.
All bees pretty grumpy - do varroa check next time.
Apparently they swarmed next door and were in one of the apple trees. Next door neighbours brother was staying and saw them but no one mentioned them to me or I would have gone round and got them back.
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