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8 August 2017

Cathedral Top Bar Hives August activity

My threee hives seem in good heart with plenty of incoming forage being brought in by numerous bees and filling combs.
I have been feeding sugar syrup for the past week or so and all is being consumed at approximately 500ml per day per colony.
Wasps and the occasional hornet have been seen around the times of these feeding episodes but they are being repelled with plenty of vigour.

  

29 July 2016

Bee Progress

Twelve days ago the swarm seen below was captured and deposited into a bare top bar hive, encouraged with a few jars of sugar water feed and closely watched.  All is well it seems 

The largest load of pollen yet seen





My hive follows the innovative shape found here. Five combs snugly shaped to conserve warmth: Cathedral Hive.. Since this observation and now at the 15th August I see two further combs started and the first five expanding outward to the opposite side bar (the east side)..



Pollen and nectar being laid down for the winter