I manged to inspect most of my colonies yesterday. Cool wind from the sea however.
A couple of colonies that had no brood last time (2 - 3 weeks ago) have queens laying now.
One mini-nuc may have no queen or a duff one (an old parked queen so I am not bothered if she is no more); I'll look in more detail later.
Other mini-nucs are alive and growing.
One colony has drone brood and some neglected drone brood amongst the worker, so that queen is going to fail soon I expect.
The rest are fine. One, I labelled as "sh*ts" so that queen will feel a 'little nip' soon. A newspaper unite is on the cards.
A couple of colonies that had no brood last time (2 - 3 weeks ago) have queens laying now.
One mini-nuc may have no queen or a duff one (an old parked queen so I am not bothered if she is no more); I'll look in more detail later.
Other mini-nucs are alive and growing.
One colony has drone brood and some neglected drone brood amongst the worker, so that queen is going to fail soon I expect.
The rest are fine. One, I labelled as "sh*ts" so that queen will feel a 'little nip' soon. A newspaper unite is on the cards.
May your bees read the same books as you do.