Hi All
I caught a swarm last weekend and from the time i picked it up at about 11:00am, and transported it to my apiary and opened it up (about 4hrs) more than half of the bees were dead. I am not to sure why. It was not a hot day (about 20"c), I thought they may have sufficated but I had a look at the nuc today and it has about 1mm slit opening on one top edge so i don't think they would have sufficated? but the swarm was pretty large so maybe? It did sit in the car for about 1hr while i inspected some other hives, the windows were down and it was parked in the shade. Any thoughts.
Cheers Phill