babnik42
New Bee
First swarm of the season yesterday! Got a call out from a local farmer. A large swarm on a wooden post about head height. Pretty easy collection, no climbing trees, although the nuc we took was a little small and we transferred them to a full size hive straight away as soon as we got them back. Gentle bees although I did get stung 5 times in the fingers as I was scooping bees into the nuc...My fault really. I was just wearing marigolds and the fisrst few scoops went ok, but I probably was a little bit too brusque with the last few and got stung. Finger tips are surprisingly not that sensitive to stings or I'm becoming immune.
