Hey all- a quick ‘peek’ over the weekend.
I checked on the super over the weekend- not much build-out going on up there yet. I have the queen excluder on there and we’ll see how that goes over the next few weeks. I had about a dozen or so bees in the super when I opened it up, so at least some are investigating.
I suppose this means they don’t feel the need to go up there yet. 
I’m glad I have it on there though – alleviates the possibility of the bees feeling cramped down below. Population is definitely up into the summer sizes – the queen has done her job well.
Full hive breakdown inspection on the schedule for this weekend – so we’ll see how they are doing in the hive bodies.
-Will
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Hi I have three hives one of which I made from an artificial swarm in late April. I noticed that there has been a slow down in stores since the end of June caused I think by the extremely dry weather affecting the amount of nectar in the flowers ! If this is the case I would assume that the resultant honey will be quite concentrated in flavours and aroma. Is there a means of measuring this I wonder? Cannot wait for the rain to hit Gloucestershire later this week which should provide a late flow for the girls.