Under my new more methodical regime, today was - weather permitting (and it did) - down for a 9-day inspection, and I was looking forward to it because I might find that the Queens in two hives (let's call them B and C) had emerged. First up was hive A - the WBC - with last year's queen artificially swarmed into it fro hive C. All well and good - very industrious and making up numbers maginficently. Then hive B nearby, into which 9 days ago II grafted three Q cells: two don't now look viable, and ...
Updated 07-08-2011 at 10:07 PM by Neonach