Here is the new star of the show - a lovely big healthy queen, dressed in a delicate shade of fluorescent green - much like the home life of our own dear royal family.
She has layed four frames of brood since she came on to lay about 14 days ago. The photo above shows what a great queen she is. This is the perfect frame, with an arc of brood (the biscuit coloured area) surrounded by stores - pollen and honey. The lighter shaded capped cells are full of honey.
Avid followers of this blog will both remember that this colony was queenless from about 28th April, following the queen wing-clipping debacle.
But it's back on song now, and I'm predicting a good harvest in the autumn.
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