Compost bin colony..

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gandalfwhitewizard

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Got a call this week to deal with two Bumble bee nests. One belonged to a neighbour in his compost bin the other in a blue tit box.
So, having confirmed the check list questions similar to pre-flight checks and established it bumble bees i arranged time/day and fees.
When i arrived at the first house blue tit box no problem all boxed in and removed.
Round the corner to the neighbour and was shown by the nice homeowner to the lovely rear garden. "Down here they are. I was painting the shed the other day they are really nice to watch." Strange i thought but oh well.
Got to the far corner to find that the compost bin had a lovely colony in it!
"How long have they been here?"....Reply.."Ohhh let me think ummm 2 years"
They swarmed last year bank holiday monday according to the nice homeowner.
So, plan of action to reduce the compost bin to half it size. Permission to chop accordingly and use of jigsaw. Reduced bin to half the size and replaced back in original position.
Later that day with help of widders and new beek all safely moved to car and transported home.
Today we have managed to take some pics and decide on the next plan of action to get them into a TBH. Lovely colony nice temper and seem to be doing o.k.
http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/alb...&pictureid=879

http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/album.php?albumid=95&pictureid=878
http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/album.php?albumid=95&pictureid=877
 
Wheres the photos?

I had two calls today for swarms of honey bees that had manged to get into roofs. Both lots Bumble bees!

Dont people know the bloody difference?
 
As before I can't see any of gandalfwhitewizards albums.

I run mac if that makes any difference and I can see all others.

Invalid Album specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator
 
I get the same on Win Vista and iPhone.

Si.
 
Pics are on his profile - maybe go and look on there.
 
I get the same on my ZX Spectrum
 
10: GOTO profile
20: GET album
30: LOAD images
40: RETURN
 
Same here:

Invalid Album specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator
 
Administrator you have been notified, now cmon what exactly is the hold up here? Its like watching the pearl and dean adverts before the movie :D
 
So how did they survive?

The cold, varroa, nosema, etc etc - they seem to have coped with the lot!?

FG
 
Administrator you have been notified, now cmon what exactly is the hold up here? Its like watching the pearl and dean adverts before the movie :D

Sad thing is I have a massive collection of those very adverts on my hardrive :leaving:

Can you see the album here:
http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/album.php?albumid=95

I know there is a bug in the software regards pictures from Gandolf as it as happened before.

I have added the pics below:
 
Looking at the pics above are you sure its a compost bin and not a new skep from the Omlet range ?
 
Looking at the pics above are you sure its a compost bin and not a new skep from the Omlet range ?

Haha.:rofl:

Careful you dont want to give them any ideas for their next plastic creation for the urban newbie trend follwers. :beatdeadhorse5:
 
I can hear the injection moulding machines starting up...in a range of different colours.
 
Photo-0263.jpg


I had a compost bin colony last year they do seems to like them for some reason.
 
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