@@alexward8510 ta Alex, as the weather is lousy I have now given them a bit of feed to help them out, but don't want to overdo it, will do an update in a week or so to show how they are progressing. Ta for taking the time to watch and comment.
@@martindale7559 ta Martin, I have tried hard to prevent swarming this year by doing splits and inspections, but obviously took my eye of the ball, wasn't expecting the colony to swarm. Lucky that I was about when they swarmed or else I think they would have gone fairly quickly.
That was a nice prime swarm, Peter. Did you move the parent hive and put the swarm in its place? This can help stop the original hive from throwing casts👍
Just looked in the brood box, four queen cells, so just left the one. Hope it survives, if not I have a couple of spare nucs, so can use one of those queens.
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It will be interesting to see how fast they draw all those frames out👍🏼
@@alexward8510 ta Alex, as the weather is lousy I have now given them a bit of feed to help them out, but don't want to overdo it, will do an update in a week or so to show how they are progressing. Ta for taking the time to watch and comment.
Well that was fun, nice swarm
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Well done, nice to keep all bees without losing any, satisfying 🐝🐝👍
@@martindale7559 ta Martin, I have tried hard to prevent swarming this year by doing splits and inspections, but obviously took my eye of the ball, wasn't expecting the colony to swarm. Lucky that I was about when they swarmed or else I think they would have gone fairly quickly.
I am not far from you and lost one so quick, the one day gone the next@@eastsussexbeesandwildlife5801
That was a nice prime swarm, Peter. Did you move the parent hive and put the swarm in its place? This can help stop the original hive from throwing casts👍
@@chrismatthewsflyfishing7724 thanks for the advice Chris, didn't think of that, much appreciated.
Just looked in the brood box, four queen cells, so just left the one. Hope it survives, if not I have a couple of spare nucs, so can use one of those queens.