Yesterday's antics

[milkermel]

My hubby has a customer with a beekeeper nearby who always manages to lose swarms which used to end up having to be destroyed to to being unable to remove them and issue locations. Over the last few years I've popped bait hive up for them to catch and reduce issues. Usually it's only small ish swarms that never make it through the winter. Yesterday we collected the bait box which hubby had to help me retrieve as I was feeling too weak to lift it for some reason. Went into it today and found 9 frames drawn and lots of stores, evidence of brood although looks like queen may have stopped for the season as only capped brood. Slab of fondant on top so will see what happens

 

[pargyle]

They look alright ... nice frame of capped stores ... should be fine over winter.

 

[milkermel]

They look alright ... nice frame of capped stores ... should be fine over winter.

Thanks most look like that one has a handful of capped brood in it didn't see her majesty but she was there.