Things are hotting up!

2024 Cliffe Castle Bee Blog #5

Luckily the weather held this morning, as Anthony, our newest team member, and I completed the inspection of the Observation Hive bees.

Ruby is still present and strutting her stuff, now laying across five frames and we found one containing some sealed drone brood, so things in the colony are hotting-up!

It was a good job we did check today, as the amount of food stores on the frames was limited and the syrup feeder was empty. Took a re-fill back later. All looking good.

Anthony captured the orderly queue lining up in the tunnel to get back indoors once the hive was returned to the stand.