Quite a big reorganisation today for the girls, (I hope they approve!). As you will have read from my previous "Tales from the Cornerfield Apiary" our Victoria swarm has lost it queen a couple of weeks ago, as a result of this we had paired the swarm with the small "Mary" swarm , thereby giving them a new queen and the Mary swarm a better chance of surviving the winter as they were small ( 6 frames of bees).
Well today we inspected to see if they had paired and the holes chewed in the dividing newspaper signalled that they had!
So on this visit we took one of the supers from the now very busy Mary swarm and have paired it with the other of our small swarms " Queen Anne". so again in a week or so this these should also be paired thus completing the reinforcement of the two " Queen right"small swarms for the coming winter.
In a week or so I can see how "Anne" got on and then later take off the queen exclude rs , because the queens will have stopped laying now for the winter, and they will be able to get up into the super and the stored honey so they does not starve!
Last but not least as soon as the weather cools a little more its time to treat them for for Varoa, that will be at its worst at the end of the summer.
That,s it for now I will write again soon.
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