milkermel
Field Bee
- Joined
- Oct 29, 2009
- Messages
- 768
- Reaction score
- 20
- Location
- left of launceston right of bude!
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 6
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