20th July - 3 Musketeers

Welcome to the Petersfield & District Beekeeper's Apiary Blog for 2014. It is intended to publish here all the activities that take place in the apiary.

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General Apiary
Temperature 22C, weather sunny. Time 14:30

Hives #3 (queen ripening); #5 (no supers, drawing deep box); #7 (queen ripening); #10 (queen ripening) were not inspected. All stocks had varroa boards inserted.

Hive#1
Brood Chamber (Single Deep)
Queen (2014 Yellow) seen.
No Queen Cells
Brood on 8 frames in all stages including eggs, some chalk brood.
Room to lay.
Stores adequate.

Supers(2)
Top super 11 drawn frames being filled and 1 partially drawn..
Bottom super 8 frames drawn and being capped, 2 frames partially drawn and 2 frames foundation. Reorganised.

Bee Temper: 9

Hive#2
Brood Chamber  (Single Deep)
Queen (2014 Green) not seen.
No Queen Cells.
Brood on 7 frames in all stages including eggs. Sealed drone brood removed from bottom of shallow frame.
Room to lay.Stores adequate.

Supers(2)
Top super 8 frames capped 4 frames foundation including 1 added.
Bottom super 5 frames capped, 3 frames uncapped and 4 frames foundation

Bee Temper: 8

Hive#4
Brood Chamber (Single Deep)
Queen (2014 Green) seen.
No Queen Cells.
Brood on 7 frames in all stages including eggs.

Supers(2+1)
Both existing supers nearing capacity.
Put pre-used castellated shallow from Hive #9 under existing supers.

Bee Temper: 5

Hive#6
Brood Chamber (Brood and a Half)
Queen (2014 Green) not seen.
No Queen Cells
Shallow Box: Brood on 7 frames in all stages including eggs. Moved capped store frames (3) to supers exchanging with foundation frames.
Deep Box: Brood on 8 frames in all stages including eggs.

Supers(3)
Top super heavy, frames capped
Middle super heavy, frames uncapped
Bottom super being drawn.

Bee Temper: 7

Hive#8
Brood Chamber (Deep)
Queen (Green 2014) not seen.
No Queen Cells.
Brood on 7 frames in all stages including eggs.

Supers (2)
Space available

Bee Temper: 6

Summary
9 Stocks (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #10)
6 Queenright (not #3, #7, #10)
6 with Marked Queens (not #3, #7, #10)
6 with Supers (not #5, #7, #10)
5 with Marked Queens and Supers (#1. #2, #4, #6, #8)