Lovely Mother's Day here in the US. And what should come into the garden? A swarm, and a whopper at that! We don't know where they came from but there are a lot of bees. Maybe between two and three rugby ball's worth!
It's a bit awkward to reach though as it is about 40' up in a tree with very spindly branches. So no real chance of getting hold of it. I have tried to entice the bees down with a hive box of frames and some honey, who knows I may get lucky!
Anyway, I thought it would be a good idea to check if they are my bees! Well they certainly don't look like they come from my parent hive as this is still contains an awful lot of bees. I didn't look in the daughter hive as I only put a new queen in there on Thursday, and I don't want to open it up and disrupt things a second time! I'm pretty sure they don't belong to me but they could be Susan's. She doesn't know yet, but will look tomorrow!
While I was in the parent hive I reversed brood boxes!
STOP PRESS: They moved on this afternoon - we don't know where!
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