Blue 1 is being collected tomorrow morning so I need to seal up the front entrance tonight, when all the bees in the colony are tucked up inside for the night.
10:00 pm There was no sign of movement from the outside at all - I came out about an hour earlier and surprisingly some bees were still flying then.
I stuffed a small chunk of foam padding into the entrance hole.
My proper hive strap is too large to surround this small nuc. I should find a more professional-looking solution for another time, but for now I just secured it tight with packing tape, wound round a few times.
It's not a pretty solution, but it makes sure that nothing could accidentally come loose tomorrow.
