25th to 29th July; Honey and feeding.

Friday 25th put on three bee filters on hives 2, 3 and 9.

Three lifts reduced to two with air pressure to blow off the stragglers and off to Oma' to spin on Sunday 27th. Also put bee filters on the second set of two hives, 4 and 10 and the one at Oma's, 11, which was doing quite well with its new unmarked queen. I only have three bee filters.

First round of spinning generated about 10kgs.

Monday evening clipped no 3 hive with the tractor and mower and upset a bunch of bees, one of which stung me on the lower lip;

Tuesday 29th, after finishing two days of sewer repairs, took off the (heavy) honey lifts from 4 and 10, and installed feeders on all but 5 which is empty. most hives got 14kgs.

Had to combine no 8 and large wooden super, because 8 had not kept its Q. Used the water spray method and removed the Wooden hive.

On arriving at Oma's at 2100, i put my suit back on but forgot to put the hood up; starting to remove the honey lift produced a wave of angry bees, this time stinging above my eye, my hand and back of my neck.

Not much Overboelare honey, 4 kgs? but lots more from 4 & 10, where there were 5 fully double side capped frames of honey. Total about 20kgs so 30kg in total.

Seems to be a Qcell in Micro C; we'll see.