27th March - sold a colony

I was asked last summer by a friend who had previously had bees but had been left beeless since the previous winter if I could supply her with a colony on national frames. Accordingly I set up a split and took it through the winter for her.
At the weekend she telephoned to ask if she and her husband could pick it up. We agreed a pick up time for the evening when the colony had finished flying for the day.
As the day was warm and sunny I performed an inspection and marked the queen who was obligingly in the centre of the second frame of brood. A big fat lass indeed.
All the capped brood was healthy, nectar and pollen being brought and the bees calm so I closed up content it would be a good colony.
They duly arrived carrying a travel screen, fitted it, waited for the escapees to go back in, sealed the entrance, strapped the hive together then loaded it into the car and departed.
Hope they enjoy their new bees.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

The empty brood box and floor was returned yesterday. The bees are now esconced in their new home next to the owners back door in Burstwick, bees and humans peacefully co-existing. They have a super on and are rapidly filling it from the surrounding yellow seas of rape. Another super now added. More supers are ready and waiting. Another satisfied customer