Swarms, swarms and more swarms

 I have no idea where all the swarms have been coming from over the last few weeks, but it’s been fairly full on. The latest on arrived in one of my apiaries. I had just extracted three supers and had them stored on a spare stand. Somehow they managed to squeeze through a tiny gap and made their way into the supers.

I think the gap they found was too small for the queen, that’s why some of the swarm stayed outside. The bulk of the swarm were inside.

Again a really easy swarm to deal with, just gave them access to a hive and left them to it. They had started to build comb, so they had been there for a day or so. All done and dusted in ten minutes.

I went through the colony today, that’s two days after rehousing. Definitely a queen in there somewhere as there are loads of eggs. A really calm colony unusually, perhaps they are going to be the exception to the usual nightmare swarms I collect. A lot of nectar brought in considering how new they are, so much that I have given them a super to free up space in the brood.