To Feed or not to Feed . . .

Liz and Gil went to feed the bees this morning - Hive 2 very quiet and had hardly drunk any syrup since Sarah & Liz visited them on Friday.

Hive 1 still had four or five bees a second arriving at the entrances - still covered in silver pollen. We took off the roof and checked the feeder - which sure enough was empty, but noticed that the bees were busy building comb around the feeder and the hive walls now. Liz and I discussed and agreed that we both felt that the bees must be trying to build enough storage space to cope with all the feed they are getting.

So to stop them literally 'building themselves out of house & home" we left their feeder empty. We can easily begin feeding them again if the weather returns to appalling.

Liz left the syrup and bag at Gil's house - as Hannah is on the rota next week.