July 5 to 10

The weather turns and it rains solidly for nearly a whole week, by thursday 11th , the first dryish day, the rain total is 54.6mm!

Taking advantage of the dry spell i looked at the remaining minis; G & J Buckfasts had empty hives, but both without food!? my fault.... so the buckfast tally is 3 from 5, not so bad.

B,F,A had given their queens to the new splits.

Remaining are K Buckfast Q, marked OK
D a red Q marked ok
H a Carnica Q marked dark green ok
C a Carnica Q marked dark green ok
I & E both Carnica Qs, still have bees but no sign of Qs

Kieler 1 was empty a Carnica Q, some days ago

Kieler 2 with a Yellow Q had been marked light green some week or so ago

Kieler 3 is laying eggs, even closed brood, but inside the food area, so i had to do some re housing, and fix the  closed comb onto new topbars, new food in the food area and a couple of wet matches to stop the queen getting back in there.NQS

Mini +1, has the old yellow Q still laying away!
Mini+ 2 is empty, a Carnica Q.
Mini+ 3 has a few bees, NQS
Mini+4 has two good frames of bees, but NQS

The wooden small super is laying ok a Red Q from the top lift Q pulling, seen but not marked, but fed.

The No1 hive which has the green queen from the Green folding hive is laying ok, so introducing with water works too. This is actually a Red Q made after the original red swarm.

July begins with hot weather; July 1-4

On thursday the three new hives were put into position, to the left of the red Q from the back, with the yellow hive brown roof on the right between the mini plus shelf and the old aflegger with a red Qcell.

Splits were taken from the new green Q in the brussels swarm, the red Q and Etiennes swarm.

A combi of two foundation frames, four honey frames and five brood frames were split off and replaced with foundation. Etienne's swarm only had a couple of duits norm frames in it the rest are the simplex frames with the wood and metal castellation, so i had to shake five frames in to the new hive with just foundation and one frame of honey and brood.

The order is Green, Red, Etienne, in terms of where the bees come from.

These become 5,6 & 8 hives in the numeric order of the big hives with 10 here in Tollembeek and 1 in Overboelare with oma.

5 gets a Buckfast Q from micro A, introduced with smoke only after 2 days without
6 has a yellow Q from micro B, introduced just with smoke.
8 has a Carnica Q from micro F, introduced with a sugar ended cage.