Swarm

Had my first call about a swarm yesterday evening, an old friend Mike who lives not too far from the family home had a load of bees in front garden of his house and neighbours.

I was due at Robyn's dance show, she was awesome, so declined, but did call Mike and Sue from BeesandBeans and they went along, by the time they had got there swarm had moved on leaving about twenty bees on the grass in which they found a queen, so not a complete waste of time.

Has got me thinking after my recent bee sale, perhaps I should up my number of colonies? take a frame with eggs in and put it in my nuc and see if I can raise a new queen and colony from scratch?

Aman, ok need to explain, Aman is a young cricketer I am helping towards achieving his dream of playing cricket for England. Ok Aman used to help a beekeeper when he was younger and back in Afghanistan, he is absolutely adamant that I need more colonies, he is a surprising fountain of knowledge on bees, maybe I should listen?