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Tag Archives: swarm
More bait hive action
My concerns about one of my colonies potentially swarming were not helped today by far more action around my bait hive. I tried to follow the flight paths of the scouts though and they seem to be heading off the … Continue reading
Memory Lane, 10th June 2023: This is why you want a bait hive
Because if a swarm ends up somewhere like this, it gets expensive for someone. I really couldn’t deal with this. At least some of the tiles would have to come off for a start and a few of them were … Continue reading
An odd swarm call
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 … Continue reading
It’s a bee day
This morning I inspected the hives in my home apiary. Mostly they’re looking good. I had to add a super to a couple of colonies and a second brood box to another, found a queen and marked her. One colony … Continue reading
Memory Lane, 22nd May 2023: Swarm in a bucket
After three weeks and twenty-one swarms I was starting to run out of kit that I’d never thought I’d use again, let alone the “good stuff”. I ended up shaking this swarm into a bucket when it arrived on a … Continue reading
Memory Lane, 21st May 2023: A pair of pairs of swarms?
I visited a bait hive today and found this: As the “clump” of bees outside didn’t appear to be having anything to do with those inside, I guessed that it was perhaps two different swarms that had tried to move … Continue reading
Memory Lane, 19th May 2023: Here comes another one!
Not my nineteenth nervous breakdown, though I feel I could be excused if it were. I was called out this evening to have a look at this swarm that a couple had discovered entering their chimney and smoked back out … Continue reading
Memory Lane, 18th May 2023: Another one of those swarms
I was asked today if I could deal with a swarm that had turned up at a local church. Apparently it had been there a day or two and no-one had thought of me before. I got there and found … Continue reading
Bee Invasion, part 2
I’m not sure how many parts there are going to bee (ho ho) to this. Hopefully not many. I went down to have a look at the swarm this morning and it’s not good. The hole the bees are using … Continue reading
Bee Invasion!
As I was about to sit down to dinner on Saturday evening, the owner of a farm where I have some hives turned up to tell me that a swarm (possibly or possibly not from one of my hives; I … Continue reading