Well this was a couple of weeks ago now, but when we had that glorious sunny weather (remember that?!), a group of us who had come up to the farm to do some other bee related activities, took advantage of the warm sunshine to open up the hives. We only open up the hives on fine warm days because the bees maintain their hive at around 30 degrees C so if you open up on a cold day the temperature drops a lot and its more work for them to raise it up again.
Anyhow, we looked at the 4 hives. Two were doing pretty well, but the other two were looking quite weak. The queen had started to lay in all of them, and they were bringing in a lot of pollen and even some nectar. We will just have to keep our fingers crossed that they cope OK with this cold wet spell.
There are still a lot of jobs to do up at the apiary so we should have another work party up there soon.
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