Hi all, haven't posted for a while so hope you're all ok and having better luck than most of the keepers that I have spoken to this year here in the UK!
Had a phone call today to have a look at some bees behind some sofits and got all excited at the prospect (due to me not having any bees in my hives at the moment).
Anyhoots as I removed the sofit although there was a large amount of comb and some good honey stores there were only a few hundred (if that bees) so yet another colony that has collapsed.
It's always a shame to see our bees dying away especially after I carefully prepared everything to remove the colony carefully today.
Ah well, such is life I suppose.
With the frosts that we've been having here of late, do you guys and gals think the bees would have taken to my hive okay if put in on a warm day and fed ok, if of course they were present in any sort of numbers?
Rob.
Myself, I would have tried. Maybe shaking the bees into a hive with different comb. That would have been an interesting experiment, to see if different comb and feed would have brought the hive back.
If there was queen they could have done well in a nuc. You would have had to feed them.
Sincerely,
Brendhan
Cheers all, will build that nuc ready for next time then...