witchcraft
House Bee
- Joined
- Nov 23, 2010
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- 134
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- Location
- Suffolk
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 3
As I reported quickly on Saturday in WDYDITAT I was called early Saturday morning by the farmer on whose land my apiary stands to say that one of my hives was swarming. It was blowing a near gale, 8 degrees and raining. I went up to have a look (not believing him) and it was swarming exactly as he described. A huge mass of bees (as big as the cat said my son) on the outside of the hive clustered tight trying to keep warm with cold torpid bees falling from the outside as the cold got them.
Swept them into a new brood box and tried to save as many as I could, it was really cold. I stuck a feeder with thin syrup on yesterday morning and will put a brood box with frames in on top of them this morning as it, finally, looks like a nice day today.
Has anyone any idea why they chose to go then and can anyone beat it for worse weather to swarm in?
Obviously what I took to be a supersedure cell wasn't :-(
Mark
Swept them into a new brood box and tried to save as many as I could, it was really cold. I stuck a feeder with thin syrup on yesterday morning and will put a brood box with frames in on top of them this morning as it, finally, looks like a nice day today.
Has anyone any idea why they chose to go then and can anyone beat it for worse weather to swarm in?
Obviously what I took to be a supersedure cell wasn't :-(
Mark
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