Got home from work yesterday and noticed a bit of activity round the bait box and pile of kit in the garden.
Having watched a swarm land high in a tree next to the allotment yesterday morning I wasn't unduly surprised. Then noticed someone on the allotment had posted about a swarm going over her head into my garden. Well this'd be the third swarm to home itself in my garden this year so wouldn't be a surprise.
So call friend to come and get them as I have plenty of bees and we find the bait box empty and the pile of kit is just being investigated, it's not full of bees at all.
Disappointed we pack kit up and the nice lady next door notices us and points out the bee nest in the tree on the grassed front. One of the other neighbour's had mentioned it to her - and no one had thought to give me a shout!
So we put swarm into a skep and field questions off the neighbours kids for a couple of hours.
Oh it takes them forever to go in to the skep at this time of year!
Take them to her apiary and all sorted.
About midnight I remember that I really should go and block up the entrance in the big pile of kit as it'd be a nightmare to get bees out of ... so get out of bed and go and put some foam in the entrance.
Having watched a swarm land high in a tree next to the allotment yesterday morning I wasn't unduly surprised. Then noticed someone on the allotment had posted about a swarm going over her head into my garden. Well this'd be the third swarm to home itself in my garden this year so wouldn't be a surprise.
So call friend to come and get them as I have plenty of bees and we find the bait box empty and the pile of kit is just being investigated, it's not full of bees at all.
Disappointed we pack kit up and the nice lady next door notices us and points out the bee nest in the tree on the grassed front. One of the other neighbour's had mentioned it to her - and no one had thought to give me a shout!
So we put swarm into a skep and field questions off the neighbours kids for a couple of hours.
Oh it takes them forever to go in to the skep at this time of year!
Take them to her apiary and all sorted.
About midnight I remember that I really should go and block up the entrance in the big pile of kit as it'd be a nightmare to get bees out of ... so get out of bed and go and put some foam in the entrance.