Housing the new queen with her nascent colony with friends made me think about the Star. Although this was a starting colony too, in many ways similar to the one I had transferred at the weekend, I had not fed it up, but put a super on instead, because somehow I was scared the bees might swarm. If I am to have a strong colony by the end of the season, I realized I must feed the Star. So at the weekend I made some syrup and on Monday I put Porter bee exits on the crown board (placed below the super), so that bees could exit the super, but nor enter it again. This meant the super would be isolated from the hive and bee-free.
Today I filled a feeder and placed it on the crown board, over the central hole. With ekes I gave it enough space so the super would fit on top.
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| A feeder full of syrup |
While messing around with the super, I decided to change it with one of the new castellated ones. I can then castellate the other super and so slowly work my way through them all.
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| The super, now with spacer |
The frames in the super have the beginnings of honey, but very few sealed cells. Hope nothing happens to them, while they are bee-less.
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