[riseholmebees] FW: Notts BKA June newsletter
- From: "Steve Pickard" <steve_pickard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Riseholme Bees " <riseholmebees@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 09:07:04 +0100
Notts newsletter attached.
Had a bit of a setback in my solitary hive this weekend - the regular
inspection showed no brood cells apart form a couple of drones. I'd not
seen eggs in the 6 weeks or so I've had the colony, but had seen larvae, and
up to this weekend brood, as well as having spotted the queen a few weeks
back so I'd assumed that all was well. Big mistake!
Having talked it through with Neil Pont (who I got the colony from), it does
indeed seem that they have swarmed, although there is still a sizeable
population - or at the very least the queen is dead. Going to leave it for
a week or so in the off chance that a new queen has been raised (and that I
didn't successfully wipe out all queen cells in an earlier attempt to stop
the swarm) and mated, but if that doesn't happen, Neil has very kindly
offered to come down and introduce a new queen. Fingers crossed, because at
the moment I still have a healthy bunch of even tempered bees, would hate to
lose them so early in my beekeeping career! Hoping to get a second colony on
the go soon.
Hope yours all faring well - any other stories?
Steve
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