More Bees

The intention was that this blog would be about all sorts of things- however the bees seem to have different plans at the moment and here is the next installment of the bee saga!
Newark Hive looks to be thriving- but supers are on, why don't the bees move up? I have more and more questions than answers so far!

The original hive where we hoped one queen cup was left- although the advice was if 2 were left they would sort themselves out- obviously had 2 and the first one to hatch out of the beautiful queen cup we had left, upped and swarmed on us! Luckily for us they seem to like our Amelanchier tree and stayed there while we collected them. This time we took them straight to Mushroom Farm. Following the same procedure we put them in the hive and after a couple of days went back and put in a couple of frames of stores from the old hive and filled up the brood box with frames. So far so good!!

These bees hopefully will be the first of an apiary with Jill, Rob,Judith and Roger on their woodland site. (Follow Rob's blog http://sustainablegarden.blogspot.com/)