We would really have liked to see some, even just a little bit, of honey coming into the supers by now...
But there wasn't a drop to be found...which is quite frustrating as the nearby hives have honey ready to harvest...
And really ...for 6pm on a sunny day ...there are not a lot of bees in this hive...
and this might be the reason why...there is simply no worker brood...
All those bubbly looking sealed cells are drone brood and a hive full of boys won't last long....looking at Brunehild ( what other name could we give a queen living in a Beehaus?) you wouldn't really think anything was wrong with her, she certainly runs fast enough...
But after some fairly intense debate and VERY close inspection...we've decided that she is a drone layer...
Which rather begs the question......how have all these bees managed to make a queen cell?
And if there is a viable queen in there...is there enough time left this summer for her to turn this colony round?
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