- Joined
- Feb 24, 2011
- Messages
- 1,562
- Reaction score
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- Location
- near King's Lynn
- Hive Type
- 14x12
- Number of Hives
- 50+. Double Std National & 14x12
Had a phone call this morning about some bees that have lived in an apple tree for a few years. The tree was old and had a hole in it where the lady said bees had been coming and going for a few years. Anyway said tree had suffered severe damage in the storm yesterday and she could see bees and wax comb.
I went and had a look, gave my brother a call (Jed D) and we got them out and into a nuc box.
Ist picture shows the tree damage and the exposed combs and bees.
2nd picture shows more of the combs exposed, about 5ft long in total and a bit of older comb in the higher broken bit.
3rd picture shows the man nest cavity, walls no thicker than the average wooden hive in places.
4th picture shows them having a warm, they were a bit cold and docile and we ended up just shaking them into the box bit by bit and they formed 4 small clusters, 1 in each corner, I put food frames and a pollen 1 in with plenty of space to lay. I figure the box will warm up, the 4 clusters will become 1 and maybe, just maybe they might make it. Tomorrow I will put them outside and open them up, they have 2 chances now instead of just the one.
Just for the record they had a couple of hand sized patches of brood, (chilled), no queen seen, quite a bit of stores and my brother saw a varroa mite on one of them. I have put them straight on to 14x12 and all the wild comb will be melted down slowly and I may get a few pound of cooking honey.
Thanks brother Jed.
Oh, pictures wont upload, something about a security setting...........any help or ideas so I can get them on please. Just normal JPEG's, uploaded several times before.
Thanks
I went and had a look, gave my brother a call (Jed D) and we got them out and into a nuc box.
Ist picture shows the tree damage and the exposed combs and bees.
2nd picture shows more of the combs exposed, about 5ft long in total and a bit of older comb in the higher broken bit.
3rd picture shows the man nest cavity, walls no thicker than the average wooden hive in places.
4th picture shows them having a warm, they were a bit cold and docile and we ended up just shaking them into the box bit by bit and they formed 4 small clusters, 1 in each corner, I put food frames and a pollen 1 in with plenty of space to lay. I figure the box will warm up, the 4 clusters will become 1 and maybe, just maybe they might make it. Tomorrow I will put them outside and open them up, they have 2 chances now instead of just the one.
Just for the record they had a couple of hand sized patches of brood, (chilled), no queen seen, quite a bit of stores and my brother saw a varroa mite on one of them. I have put them straight on to 14x12 and all the wild comb will be melted down slowly and I may get a few pound of cooking honey.
Thanks brother Jed.
Oh, pictures wont upload, something about a security setting...........any help or ideas so I can get them on please. Just normal JPEG's, uploaded several times before.
Thanks
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