Mrs FG and I went through the two colonies at the weekend and have finally seen both queens. Both are really pretty and fairly huge, compared to the workers. No drones seen yet, but some of the cells are built up higher than the norm, so I guess that's what they are about.
The dark colony we got from PolyHive are going strongly, now on about 6 frames. They swarmed last summer, into another hive we had out and that colony went to a newbie beek near Bristol; I'll try and find out what happened to them.
The earlier colony we got from GWW and Widders is a bit weaker (4 frames?) but growing and foraging strongly.
The nuc we populated with the mini-swarm died out (as everyone said it would) over the winter.
FG
The dark colony we got from PolyHive are going strongly, now on about 6 frames. They swarmed last summer, into another hive we had out and that colony went to a newbie beek near Bristol; I'll try and find out what happened to them.
The earlier colony we got from GWW and Widders is a bit weaker (4 frames?) but growing and foraging strongly.
The nuc we populated with the mini-swarm died out (as everyone said it would) over the winter.
FG
