Month: June 2018

Six days later another swarm arrives for my WBC. I gingerly unwrap them and wonder what’s stopping them flying away? Thankfully they decide to stay and I put the lid back on and leave them for a few days to settle down. It’s official I have the bee keeping bug!

Well it seems they have decided to stay. So I added more frames so that they would not run out of space, with ‘brood’ or eggs being laid by the Queen. The bees take full advantage of this and over the next few weeks the colony expands, the hive getting taller and taller with shallower …

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