I received a call about a swarm this afternoon, but it didn’t go quite the way I expected…
The caller wanted to know if I had a box he could use to keep a swarm that had arrived in his garden. Seems an odd request. Why would I be selling hives? Or perhaps he didn’t realise quite how much a hive costs and thought people just give them away? As it happens, until I get these brood boxes made up I have absolutely nothing anyhow. If I have a swarm arrive myself at the moment I shall be madly assembling kit in the workshop 😀
As the call went on it transpired that he knew absolutely nothing about bees or beekeeping. Now I’m all in favour of people taking beekeeping up as a hobby, but not if you have no clue what you’re actually doing. And it’s not like there isn’t a fair amount to know, even to just get started.
Somehow I don’t think this is going to end up the way he thought…