A quick visit

this week just to see how they are getting on. The weather continues to be changeable - that's probably the kindest description I can give. For every one day of good, warm weather we have three or four of torrential rain, low temperatures and overcast skies. If I were a bee I'd be getting a bit hacked off with it all.

I did visit this week, on Wednesday, just to remove the empty feeder and slot in a couple more undrawn frames. I managed to pick the five minutes in the day when it wasn't raining but my bees were still pretty hacked off when I opened up the roof and plucked off the feeder.

When I arrived I was a bit worried as they were all lined up in the entrance and at first I thought they had all starved to death. As it turns out they were just waiting for the rain to stop. Given that it rained cats and dogs all day they probably had a long wait.

From what I could see though they look pretty healthy - in that numbers don't look like they are dwindling. Thanks to the bank holiday this weekend is longer than usual so I should have chance to go and have a good look at what they are doing.