As the warmer days of spring arrive so my bees are getting busier and busier. They are bringing in lots of pollen of various colours but mainly yellow and bright orange. It's fascinating because there is an almond tree within 2 metres of the hive but I haven't seen many bees on it.

The good new is they are expanding rapidly as can be seen from these two photos. The one on the left was taken on 23rd March and on the right 9 April. In just over two weeks the hive has gone from 5 frames to 9 frames nearly doubling in size. It's time I gave them some more space to store the nectar so they have room for the queen to lay eggs in the brood cells.

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