Late last night I brought back a couple of nucs from Luke in Essex. The one in my allotment has one of his German Carnelian queens. The one in Old Cosstessy is his general stock pre German queens.
With the number of beekeepers and their colonies increasing on the allotment site one would expect the occasional swarm to crop up. Today's was an easy one to collect and is now housed in a brood box near to the small apple tree and the aconites.
I have lost another good queen (or did sometime last week) and had a hive full of queen cells to deal with as a result. This time it was the Thorpe allotment hive. A strong hive of nice bees is now split up and in half a dozen nuc boxes.
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