Inspecting Polly – 24th August 2020
This is us inspecting Polly
Inspecting Polly – 9th August 2020
This is what we found when inspecting our hive called [su_tooltip title=”What’s behind the names?” content=”We named the hives so we knew which ones we were talking about to each other. Polly is because the colony started off in a polystyrene nucleus (a poly nuc)”]Polly[/su_tooltip] on 9th August
From left from front
Frame 1. [su_tooltip title=”What does this mean?” content=”This is NS – near side or FS – far side. When we inspect a hive you stand to one side (for our hives) so this is shorthand to describe which side of a frame we’re talking about”]NS[/su_tooltip] brood, dark, well covered, play cell. FS brood, larvae, play cell
Frame 2. NS undrawn. FS drawn
Frame 3. NS eggs. FS larvae
Frame 4. NS brood, larvae. FS brood, larvae at extremities
Frame 5. NS brood. FS larvae
Frame 6. NS brood. FS hatching brood with eggs laid back in space
Frame 7. NS brood, eggs in extremities. FS brood, larvae
Frame 8. NS play cells. FS brood, pollen, larvae
Frame 9. NS brood. FS brood, larvae
Frame 10. NS larvae, brood, eggs. FS brood, hatched in middle, relaid with eggs
Frame 11. NS brood. FS Queen, pollen