Curley
House Bee
- Joined
- May 29, 2014
- Messages
- 364
- Reaction score
- 7
- Location
- Wilts
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 8
Hi all - after a bit of advice.
Was presented with a swarm today, brought it home and got most of it in the hive. Not the smoothest operation and I obviously missed the queen the swarm reconvened in my buddleja. After a bit of thrashing around in the leaves and branches with a box and a bee brush the swarm decamped again and clustered on a much more convenient place, an old ladder rest. I knocked them into the box, inverted over a sheet and board and propped - within minutes much fanning and shortly the large bulk of the bees were in the box.
Question is - do I leave it till tonight to have another go at hiving or go for it asap?
Any views and advice gratefully received
Was presented with a swarm today, brought it home and got most of it in the hive. Not the smoothest operation and I obviously missed the queen the swarm reconvened in my buddleja. After a bit of thrashing around in the leaves and branches with a box and a bee brush the swarm decamped again and clustered on a much more convenient place, an old ladder rest. I knocked them into the box, inverted over a sheet and board and propped - within minutes much fanning and shortly the large bulk of the bees were in the box.
Question is - do I leave it till tonight to have another go at hiving or go for it asap?
Any views and advice gratefully received