This just gets better and better. After the bee swarm from next door had been put in the box and transferred into the new hive, Mr B had a quick look at the original colony in our back yard…… and it turns out that the swarm didn’t come from there!
THEY’RE SOMEONE ELSE’S BEES!
Now he is stressed-out big time because a nasty bee disease called European Foul Brood has been discovered in a hive belonging to his beekeepers association (quite a few miles away, mind), and it was a colony that they had collected as a swarm.
So we have to keep a close eye on these bees to make sure they haven’t got any nasty diseases.
He was away sailing all weekend (he took two big bags so I assume F went sailing too), and I had to watch the bees on my own. My ‘catsitter’ doesn’t do bees.
This isn’t the final line on bee swarms. Mr B is still hammering away making another hive to do an ‘artificial swarm’ on my original bees.
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