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General Q&A, Bee chat and only Bee chat please
 #12533  by MickBBKA
 30 Mar 2022, 18:53
After 10 years beekeeping this is a first for me. The last few years I have been using pollen sub as my bees never get chance to forage much before April and I used a bit early in March again. The last 2 weeks have been amazing. The bees have been digging out huge amounts of old pollen and throwing it out. Never seen that before. Managed to inspect all colonies last week at 17c and in quite a few the queens have had to leap frog a frame rammed with fresh pollen to continue to lay. Never seen that before either in Spring. Worry is it snowed all day today although never laid and its 4c, I have visions of abandoned brood on the edges next inspections. But its been a fantastic start. :D
 #12534  by Alfred
 31 Mar 2022, 07:44
I've had an unusually mild winter so far and the boxes were all clogged with unused stores I removed one from almost every box .I found two with a complete frame of pollen which I've not seen before.
One hive that had filled bracecomb with Autumn syrup had refilled the partially emptied frame with new honey.
No way that one is going in the extractor.
Summers now over so I have to go back to watching feed levels again....