Here is an image of the entrance to the hive at my home apiary in Tintern after I took the entrance box out. As you can see there is a whole layer of dead bees which went all the way over the mesh floor. So yesterday which was a lovely sunny day, was spent with one person lifting the hive whist the over clean the floor. Very important activity as this will stop disease festering and save the bees a lot of work. The bees would normal clean this all this away but I think it be so cold they have not been their normal clean selves.
All 6 hives where flying well, so fingers crossed for the next three weeks as I would argue they are the most important of the year for the bees.
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