Posted on 10-06-2021   Hive 3
Super with five frames of capped honey. Porter bee escape added and harvest after the weekend. Posted on 10-06-2021   Hive 2
No honey in the super after swarming. Inspect in another two weeks. Posted on 10-06-2021   Hive 1 inspection
Two supers of honey, but not fully capped. Will leave for another five days before reinspecting. Posted on 25-05-2021   Hive 2 inspection 24th May
Not much honey in the super. Plenty of activity so sign of swarming. Posted on 25-05-2021   Hive 1 inspection 24th May
Supers full of honey. Some capping work started but need to leave for at least week. Posted on 03-05-2021   Hive 4 full inspection
Queenless with a very small colony. Frame inserted from hive 2. Hopefully a queen can be produced. Posted on 03-05-2021   Hive 3 full inspection
Low stores and queenless. Colony size modest. Introduced a frame of uncapped/capped brood frame from hive 1 for new queen to be produced. Posted on 03-05-2021   Full inspection of hive 2
Plenty of activity and stores. A couple of queen cups removed but no fully formed queen cells found. Posted on 03-05-2021   Full inspection of hive 1
Plenty of activity and stores. No queen cells spotted. Put on an extra super. Posted on 17-04-2021   April inspection 1
Hive 1 - Replaced a leaky roof Hive 2 - Added a super Hive 3 - Moved queen excluder up between brood extension and super Hive 4 - All ok Posted on 06-02-2021   February hive check
All four hives have a little activity from the outside. Hive hefting not possible, so will likely feed fondant to all. Posted on 22-12-2020   Winter check of the hives
Hives one to four checked for blocked entrances and any sign of mouse or woodpecker ingress - None found. Posted on 12-10-2020   Hive 4 feeding
Hive 4 contact fed with 50:50 water/sugar mix Posted on 12-10-2020   Hive 3 fed with contact feeder
Hive 3 contact fed with 50:50 water/sugar mix

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