I was asked if I could take a look at this swarm that appeared one Sunday afternoon above a path leading to a childrens’ nursery.
“Not much chance of taking that in one hit”, I thought. Nonetheless I knocked as many off the tree into the box as possible. Most of the rest fell onto the floor, so I closed up the lid of the swarm box and opened the rotating door. From that point on, it was absolutely textbook 😀
And within an hour, as the light was starting to fade, I could close up the door and take them all away to be looked after somewhere safe, for both them and humans.
Not without taking a photo of this first however. Clearly they were desperate to start drawing comb.
