Le-Pige Hive Inspection

Sunday 26th June 2011, 12.00 did a inspection of Le-Pige with Linda, queen not seen but lots of brood and eggs laid, queen doing really well, the temp was 28degrees real hot day, but when opening Le-Pige no problems bees very calm.
Checked the super and one frame have nectar and they are starting on others, drawing them out.
I changed the queen excluder from plastic to metal see how it goes.

Hive Inspection Le-Pige

Went and did a hive inspection at Le-Pige hive with my Bee Buddy, located queen on frame 10,
We noticed that all though a prolific layer the queen is a messy layer, no pattern just were ever she feels like laying eggs.
Lot of pollen coming in especially black pollen showing which I think is from Oriental poppy (Papaver}, and Red Horse Chestnut.
I saw for the first time bees emerging from their cells, watched them chip away at the capping and helped by older bees, saw 5 in total emerge brilliant.
Did have to give them a 1ltr sugar syrup feed as so many broods to feed there was not much stores.
But from my Bee Buddy he said hive doing really well.

My Bees

Today my bee buddy came round and we did inspection of my hive, they are doing so well and are very calm when we were checking the brood chamberoff the 11 frame 1-11 are empty but 2 and 10 are full of stores and 3 to 9 have eggs, unsealed and capped, couple of drone cells built, locaited Queen on fram 3 laying well.I have now had to add a super with frames which is great sign they doing well.

This is a picture of the bees coming in with stores(Pollon) note the different colours they are carrying.