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Queen bee found!

                                           Bees bearding outside nuc entrance

                                          Super in wbc hive

                                          Emergency queen cell

                                          Brood

                                                        Larva

                                           The Queen in center, bee to left has a verroa mite,
                                           I have only seen one mite in all of my hive inspections.

                                           Queen in center

                                                          Queen

                                                        My daughters friend

Smile!

I have been trying to rally support to help secure funding to improve my local community's health and well being:  “The green energy wood fuel garden”

A Community free food events garden, demonstrating energy consumption and renewable energy types towards a Better landscape practice-woodland gardens for wood fuel... please follow this link and support its free! 

Black country biodiversity group is launched!

Check out whats coming up on the bcbg, we are welcoming members, so please take a look and let me know if you want to be involved!

Best let bee!

Ok so I had to split my hive, the colony lost its queen and I decided to interfere. The pics below are not as busy bees should bee... 

 Above show what little honey my nuc has

Very little brood

Capped cell

Dead brood

Flickr Great crested newt surveys

http://www.flickr.com/photos/daniellejeynes/ With Walsall Wildlife

Small is Beautiful

 Stored honey last 2 weeks worth a sudden nectar flow Fabtastic!

 Lots of Honey!

 Newly drawn comb

 The brood box

 Capped cells

 Where the queen is hiding

 Larvae and eggs

 More larvae

 First queen cell

 Hiding the queen/or queen cell?

 Two more queen cells

 Bees and more bees

Splitting colony am tomorrow... Watch this space