From April onwards, bees have been busy, collecting honey and pollen to build up the colony size. For me the weather has been cool, but native Irish black bees are quite fine to get out and about, even in light drizzle, a tough race of bees.
There is a worry that they will swam, to set up a hive elsewhere, leaving behind a new queen and small colony to get fertilised and expand the gene mix. They will also swam if the hive becomes crowded, meaning no room to lay more eggs or to store more honey.
This latter reason could be avoided by giving them more room, simply by taking a filled and comb of honey and insert an empty bar for them to keep going.
That’s the theory and we will observe their progress. Meanwhile there is fresh spring honey to enjoy, a top note of mix herbs and a balsamic body probably form pollen mixed in, could imagine the rounded rich mouth feel of vanilla or chocolate.
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