Got a nice sized swarm

[ShaneR]

Got a call late Tuesday evening from a lady who had a "swarm" in her front garden, told her that I would pop round around 9pm and take a look, well I got there half thnking it would be bumble bees, she directed me to a dense bush and there smack bang in the middle was a rather large cluster of bees indeed.

She was adamant something was to be done asap, so with failing light I spent 40 minutes or so carefully cutting all the surrounding branches until finally using torch light moving the swarm to a nuc.

I left the nuc and next morning just before dawn returned and moved it to a new area to bring it on, I nipped and took a quick look today and they are drawing foundation like troopers (2 frames drawn already) and were bringing in a steady flow of pollen and nectar. Next mission once they have settled is find queen and mark her.

 

[enrico]

Text book, well done, swarms aplenty here!

 

[ShaneR]

Pic of them, they are surprisingly very calm and docile

 

[always weeding]

lovely

 

[ShaneR]

Moved the swarm to a full size brood box a few days ago as they seemed a little crowded in the 5 frame nuc. they appear to be thriving, plenty of foraging and drawing well, 4 frames drew so far and filling with stores. will leave a week now and check for eggs / brood and see if I can locate queen and mark if present.
http://youtu.be/6PqSbWwcOOQ

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