I went down to give the bees some more sugar syrup. The feeder on Adele Hive is a green plastic masiemore feeder that I bought at the convention it was empty but for a layer of sugar crystals and sugar crystals all over the covers on the weirs. I needed to remove it and clean it but it was getting dark and I decided to do it today. The bees were not happy and there were lots of them still in the feeder and up inside the plastic cone things that make the weirs I ended up brushing and banging unceremonsiously and the bees were not impressed - I got stung twice. eventually I got the bees of and the feeder in the kitchen with only one bee attached which I managed to rescue later. So now I've cleaned it up I will wait for nightfall and because of the amount of brace comb they have been attaching to the underneath of the feeder I think that I will put it on the crown board this time.
Beatrice hive have cleaned up the super beautifully but now I have to persuade them out before they start to put honey in the frames. The moment I started putting the porter bee escapes into the crown board they got really angry - I just put the hive back together and ran - scarey bees!!
Will wait till it's dark tonight before I go down there again!
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