POPZ

Although weather was not great yesterday, I got the chance to go through my hive. This with much trepidation as there seemed to be less activity with the ladies over the last two weeks and some odd drunken like ladies on their landing strip and some seemingly doing kamikazi like dives into the ground where they just crawled around aimlessly - thoughts of something very wrong inside??

The super still had plenty of stores in it and fresh pollen. But this super is full of spring syrup so not too sure what do next with the super. Loads of bees here, and then into the brood where I was greeted with even more excited ladies - maybe a little too excited for my liking and in fact I have to admit it was a bit daunting. However, take a deep breath, use a little smoke and plough on. Brood had increased from three to 5 and a half frames. One frame with a small amount of drone brood at the top above all the rest. The remainder was foundation and some being nicely drawn.

I wonder if things are progressing as they should? It feels good, and saw no signs of any problems inside, if indeed I would recognise them if there were!!