Borrowed Bob’s bee suit to check on the bees. Thankfully, they haven’t actually moved into the shed but were robbing what was left of some honey in the frames I am storing there. I had failed to take anything with me that I could block the holes the bees were getting in with so I just moved the super out hoping the bees would follow it.
Then I went to check on hive one which should have the original queen and hive two which should have the new queen. I got distracted in hive one by all the honey in the bottom super. I haven’t got a bee brush so shook the bees off which, I should have learned from last time, they DO. NOT. LIKE. They have some very bad habits that I think they have learned from the horrid bees, you know, stinging every part of the suit & gloves, flying up if you dare put a finger near the hive, following you up the allotment when you try to run away etc. I think they will need re-queening as well. Two stings got through the canvass part of the gloves so I took two antihistamine tablets got the rest of the honey, replacing the frames with drawn comb, put it all back together and ran away. Bob needed his suit back anyway so I had a good excuse to leave. I didn’t get to look in the brood box of either hive, thunder storms are due in next couple of days so don’t know when I’ll get to do it. I was ready to jack it all in there & then. I’m waiting to see what sort of reaction I have, if any, to these two stings before deciding anything. So far no redness, lumpiness, shakiness. Just a little nausea, so, we'll see.