Caught my first swarm in a swarm trap

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Jon.21

House Bee
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14x12
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A few weeks ago retrieved my first swarm from a tree. Yesterday another first for me I caught a swarm in my swarm trap.
Put up a 14x12 nuc in a April in my garden about 25m away from my hives and this arrived yesterday.
Will find out if it’s from one of my colonies at the weekend when I do my next inspections (didn’t see any queen cells on last inspection at the weekend unless I missed them).
Housed them in a new nuc then dropped them off at my parents 4 miles away after sunset to quarantine.
 

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Inspected my three hives at the weekend (saw the queen in one of them ) and all good. Eggs present in all of them and no queen cells so looks like this swarm came from somewhere else. Glad I isolated them now and will check up on them next week or 2. Video below is how they were getting on after a couple of days being put into the nuc. Saw them yesterday and there was 10/20 queuing to get in.
 

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