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<blockquote data-quote="Bron" data-source="post: 7486" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>About 10 years ago when we were just starting out we had hives in the bottom of the garden visible from the dining room table. In those days we were both employed by others and were building up our numbers and working weekends for ourselves. (So 7 days a week.) </p><p>We used to start the morning with a cooked breakfast. Cooked the bacon, eggs and hash browns, and made the coffee and tea. Looked out and said to himself, that’s a swarm in the tree. Sure enough about 20 foot up, a tree just above the hive. So after we box it up, put it on the truck & take it off on our adventures we’ve lost 2 precious hours. Yay we thought a swarm! </p><p>Roll on two weeks and same scenario as above. We’d missed one cell on our hive check. So we caught that one too, and 2 more hours lost of our bee weekend. Poor bees never recovered, never made any honey, and pretty well didn’t survive swarming twice.</p><p>We learnt hard lessons that season.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bron, post: 7486, member: 59"] About 10 years ago when we were just starting out we had hives in the bottom of the garden visible from the dining room table. In those days we were both employed by others and were building up our numbers and working weekends for ourselves. (So 7 days a week.) We used to start the morning with a cooked breakfast. Cooked the bacon, eggs and hash browns, and made the coffee and tea. Looked out and said to himself, that’s a swarm in the tree. Sure enough about 20 foot up, a tree just above the hive. So after we box it up, put it on the truck & take it off on our adventures we’ve lost 2 precious hours. Yay we thought a swarm! Roll on two weeks and same scenario as above. We’d missed one cell on our hive check. So we caught that one too, and 2 more hours lost of our bee weekend. Poor bees never recovered, never made any honey, and pretty well didn’t survive swarming twice. We learnt hard lessons that season. [/QUOTE]
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