Busy bees

Here’s a one-minute glimpse of the industry of a nucleus (half-size) colony of honeybees in a village in early May in southern England.

I started to count the number of returning foragers, but quickly gave up as that was hard work!

If you view this in full screen, watch for the tiny mites (probably pollen mites) scurrying back and forth along the grain on the top of the entrance door.

Turlough, Vita’s Guest Beekeeper Blogger