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Weekly Inspection 23rd July

Observations:

Weather: cooler temperatures with some heavy showers, including a couple of all day spells.

Forage: Buddleia, St John’s wort, Borage still, some rosebay willow herb. However, the level of activity from the hives has dropped off.

For once no major issues with any of the colonies, now I need to start thinking about Winter preparations and adding in missing frames from some of the colonies prior to assessing stores in the brood boxes.

Apidea: queen high size, but couldn’t see any eggs. If eggs present next inspection, then will create a nuc with frames from E&C.

Hive Record

Colony	Q	BIAS	Brood	Stores	Comment	Next Inspection
Aqua	N	Y	4 frames of bias	Plenty in the brood box	Looks to be expanding nicely	Add to 14 x 12 frames
Blue	N	Y	Six and a bit frames of bias	1 kg in second super	Looks to be okay	Check for brood pattern size
Cyan	Y	Y	Seven frames bias	Plenty in the brood box	Swap out one frame to get to 11	Add dummy board and donate frame to new nuc
Denim	N	Y	Six frames of bias, again, lots of eggs	Second super half full	New queen seems to be doing well	Check for stores in the brood box
Emerald	N	Y	10+5 frames of bias, lots of eggs	4th super one third full	Need to rearrange frames	Swap out 2 frames (1+1) and add in dummy boards
Flax	N	Y	4 frames of bias, so has expanded	Second super 2/3 full	Still not seen the Queen	Add one 14 x 12 frame
Green	Y	Y	Six frames of bias	Not much in the brood box, needs missing frames	Make me feeding for winter, if stores remain low	Add five missing frames (4BS,1S)
Honeydew	N	N	One frame of eggs	Plenty of stalls	Keep an eye on progress	Check for expansion
Indigo	N	Y	Seven and a bit of bias.	Super 2/3, full and lots in the brood box, approx 15 kg	Not seen the Queen for quite a few weeks	Check for Queen

Weekly Inspection 23rd July

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