I'm in the 3rd yr of keeping/having bees
. I just joined the forum a week ago and thought I should post something. So, going into this past (2015) winter I had 2 hives. I started with 1 hive the first year and they didn't survive the winter, it was pretty darn cold too that winter. In the spring (2015) my brother and I cut a hive out of a tree for the neighbor, and added a package, giving me 2 hives.
This spring the weather has warmed sooner then in the past and the swarming has been under way here for the past 2-3 weeks. I had to go to a conference a few hundred miles away and my wife messaged me this
and said the neighbor, (same neighbor) asked if we wanted it? Now my wife hasn't really been very active in my beekeeping adventure, but she said "I'll go get it", not really knowing how to go about it. And so, questions started "blowing up" my phone. She finally found a cardboard box, and collected the swarm
.
She moved them into a couple shallow 10 frames until I returned, then we moved them into a 10 frame deep with some comb, and started feeding them. Success! This was the first swarm we have caught, aside from the cut out last spring.
This past Saturday evening, same neighbor comes over and asked if we had gotten the bees, and we said yes. He says, well there are more, in the same location. So, we go over and sure enough
. Holy cow, now we have 4 hives.
And, I did two splits off the original hive about 2 weeks ago and took them to my brothers. So, I'll have 6 hives all together. I need to get busy building wooden ware.
Thanks for listening.
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