We started off with Hive 1 - which had a lot of activity over a lot of comb. We decided not to start opening up the hive again so soon after last time. So instead I took a dive in there . . .
The feeder was down to a third full, so we topped it up with the syrup that Hannah had made up, and closed the hive back up again.
As soon as we took the roof off Hive 2 however, Suzi realised that it was quiet - very very quiet indeed. And sure enough the bees were gone.
We had a quick look around the trees, but no sign. There were just a handful of bees left - one very noisy drone, and a couple of worker bees trying to feed the larvae in the remaining comb. It really was quite pitiful.
We can only reflect again that this colony were up against it from the start. And the other colony seem to be building and building. Who knows - perhaps they took in some refugees . . .
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