The Spring flow here has been short but powerful! The bees filled supers really quickly once they were no longer starving. Absolutely from famine to feast.
Last year the weather knocked most of the bramble opportunities on the head, so we’re at the mercy of the Met Office!
Thursday donated a split colony to a fellow beek, who had suffered losses, as too many bees for the garden.
Today inspected three: split one, so back to square one!
Of the other two I added a third super to one and a fourth super to the other. All bees very nice to work with.
Something keeps leaving presents on our outside table and chairs - I’m assuming a bird.
The poo is very like from bramble - a purple ish squidgy but with quite sizeable seeds in it.
I can’t think what the seeds are from and would like to know as they are commonly stuck to my trousers when I...