Sunday, 7 July 2013

Bees have arrived

Went to pick up my nucleus of bees on Friday. Slightly unnerving driving half an hour with only a bit of mesh held in place with three drawing pins between us and 10,000 bees!!
The transfer went very smoothly, unfortunately didn't spot the queen, very hard to as she's not marked, but she was def in there somewhere! Only gave the bees a gentle puff of smoke & they were very well behaved, I think perhaps they were very pleased to be out of their hot nuc box....
Transferred 5 frames, all covered in brood and capped honey with a little bit of stored pollen too. 
Can't wait to see what they've done in a weeks time....