Prince George might be causing a stir down under but back here on the allotment it’s all about the Queen.
If all has gone to plan a new Queen will have hatched out in my hive and polystyrene nuc over the weekend. Now I need temperatures to get above 16C in the next 3 weeks so they can take their mating flights.
Here is a video from today of the original hive plus two new ones. They’re looking surprisingly busy:
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- Bees For Free – Post where I describe creating the two new hives from queen swarm cells
- Hive Two Record Card
- Hive Three Record Card (that’s the new hive, I need to mark the hive for photos)
- Poly Nuc Record Card (poly nuc = polystyrene nucleus, a small hive that only fits 5-6 frames)