Thanks Andy, and just for interest I had a swarm go yesterday too.
Inconveniently they settled in my neighbours' garden causing consternation to
the children, but fortunately they setteld very conveniently on the bird-table
at head height in a nice compact bunch. Waiting until 5pm I (with help from
Annie) was able to collect them into my new polynuc box (bought at the end of
last year especially for this purpose!), and then at 8pm trnsported the box
back to my apiary.
This morning I have done some seat-of-the-pants manipulations to get the swarm
(I hope with Q) into the Nuc#1. Will check Hive#1 tomorrow for QCs because
that's where I think the swarm came from... I will also be feeding swarm/Nuc#1
with weak syrup so they can quickly start drawing the new foundation that I
have put there.
Sometimes I think this game has more excitement than I really want...
Ian
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On Friday, 1 May 2020, 21:20:18 BST, Andy Hepburn <andyhep@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Evening all,
A salutary lesson if, like me, you didn't think bees would swarm on a day when
hail is forecast:
http://beechenbees.blogspot.com
Enjoy!
Andy.
