Hey folks!
Am after some reassurance that I haven't buggered things up!
I overwintered my national hive with a full super on top, no QE. There's been plenty of action around the hive for about a month, lots of pollen going in etc. so today, given that it was nice and warm with no wind I went and had a look.
The super was fully drawn, with stores in the outer frames, eggs and a small amount of capped brood. There were a couple of capped drone cells and some drawn drone comb. There were plenty of bees and the hive seemed pretty full.
I found HM and put her into the brood box, then popped a QE on. So far so good I thought.
Now I'm worrying! I didn't check the brood box at all. Will the queen be ok down in the brood? I'm hoping the brood frames will have stores and brood, but I didn't actually look as I wanted to be as quick as possible.
Do I need to go back tomorrow?
Ta!
Am after some reassurance that I haven't buggered things up!
I overwintered my national hive with a full super on top, no QE. There's been plenty of action around the hive for about a month, lots of pollen going in etc. so today, given that it was nice and warm with no wind I went and had a look.
The super was fully drawn, with stores in the outer frames, eggs and a small amount of capped brood. There were a couple of capped drone cells and some drawn drone comb. There were plenty of bees and the hive seemed pretty full.
I found HM and put her into the brood box, then popped a QE on. So far so good I thought.
Now I'm worrying! I didn't check the brood box at all. Will the queen be ok down in the brood? I'm hoping the brood frames will have stores and brood, but I didn't actually look as I wanted to be as quick as possible.
Do I need to go back tomorrow?
Ta!