We had an interesting meeting. Plenty of bee talk. The bees were all progressing well.Two hives were given another super, and the uniting of the two weak colonies worked well. Even the suspect queen has been installed somewhere. No signs of any swarm preparations yet. I wonder if we shall get the Spring gap this year as everything is so late.
It was a lovely afternoon at the apiary. Bees and beekeepers very well behaved as usual. We had twelve members attend so we split into two groups. The two weakest hives were put together using the newspaper,telegraph of course,method. I was about to squash the unwanted queen when shouts of NO went up. Someone now has a suspect queen in a cage with three attendants. Might prove useful. There were reports of two swarms seen yesterday. Six hives are doing very well. The two we supered two weeks ago needed a second one and three others
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