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Moving to new servers, different error message from earlier.

Many thanks FD for your assistance last night with the frames, and on Saturday.

On Saturday we had a grafting session for various enthusiastic newbees and nearly newbees, and a look to see how the new nucs were coming along.

ESBA1, which featured earlier on here and is largely Amm (thanks Jon) and has daughters in Speyside now, spawned six splits plus the mother. One of these splits failed and yesterday lunchtime I dispersed the frames and remaining bees to neighbours ...

We meet every Monday evening between 7 and 9.
This week the plan was to talk about general apidea management and how to keep the right amount of bees in the apidea once there is a laying queen and brood hatching.
Any apidea which had lost a queen got a frame of larvae from a queenright one to help stabilise it and stop any more bees drifting away. These will get a new cell asap.

The novelty was that we found 15-20 apideas with eggs and these were queens which emerged ...

I have a queenless cell raiser colony I set up just over 2 weeks ago by removing the queen.
This has been brilliant at producing cells with about 40 queens already introduced to apideas and another 40+ in the pipeline.
I went over early afternoon to graft another 20 into it and as I was approaching with the grafts I noticed it had a swarm in the air which settled 12 feet up a thorn tree just outside the apiary.
I opened up expecting carnage as I had 15 sealed cells in the box ...

Found one queen laying today from a batch which emerged on 19th June so just managed to get one mated before the end of June. Can only get better.
I have 50 cells with queens due to emerge next week and did another 50 this afternoon.