chycarne
House Bee
- Joined
- Sep 12, 2010
- Messages
- 168
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- Location
- West Cornwall, 190m altitude
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 7 hives
Sad one this … had a call from our local electricity distributer yesterday, and went out to attend a fuse box on a pole that had got bees in it - one glance from the repair man he had resealed and moved away quick. We got there at 5.30 opened up and found 10.000 dead bees, 3 big combs approx 10 inches top to bottom, 8 inches in length, completely empty and the signs that they had been through one brood cycle. I guess that was one of the last swarms from the summer and didn’t have enough time to get organised. Interestingly it was also a woodpecker’s nest they had occupied. Just wish we had been called out 2 weeks before nice dark bees brought into the warm and a trickle of sugar solution just top see but not even a twitch. Even the bees get it wrong sometimes. Really sad to see though.