Daylight Robbery

Time to offload the honey from the bees. It is very late in the year and this ought to have been done some weeks ago so that the girls can be fed with refined sugar to build up winter stocks. Also means have delayed doing other critical jobs such as Varroa treatment.

As some will remember I split - or rather they split - into two colonies this year so harvest was never going to be great. The red dotted queen on top left is doing well but the swarmed colonyy has done really well. I haven't found the queen but she is in there and very busy.