Still rotten weather, just constantly cold and wet again. It doesn't matter though - this job will only take a couple of minutes and the bees will hardly even notice that I'm here.
There's not much sign of movement here today - hardly surprising with such cold wet weather.
It only took a moment to whip off the old brood box, shake out the couple of bees inside it, then replace it with the new lid.
I closed up the entrance to the smallest setting too - there's not likely to be much activity in the next few days with such cold weather.
I can take these parts away to clean them before I return them. This involves scorching them all over the insides with a blowtorch - this completely removes any detritus still inside and kills any traces of bugs and diseases which could otherwise be transferred to another apiary.
