Weekly farm bee hive checks, emergency feeding, losing a nucleus to starvation, mated queen's

Weekly Bee Hive checks on all the hives, one still queenless at the farm, put emergency feed on all hives, first sting of the year an boy did it get me good on the ankle😆
All hives active and bringing pollen in.
Deer Farm Aperie all full hives doing well added emergency feed, unfortunately lost one nucleus colony that was a split but didn't have a queen 😕 😢, had to combine another nucleus split that was still queenless with a queen right nucleus using newspaper between the boxes hopefully that go's ok🤔🙈
It's been a terrible year so far for the bees with a long wet winter, long wet spring and the start of summer has been the same, lots of beekeepers all over the UK 🇬🇧 have had to emergency feed and despite not taking much spring honey from the bees it's the same situation here, the bees just can't get out its not been good for getting queen's mated too. On warmer sunny days the bees are out in force just trying to get by I guess, I think it will be a minimal summer honey crop if any at all because the bees need it more than we do.
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