First Nuc sales

 I have always enjoyed queen rearing and building up new colonies, so I suppose it was a natural progression to start selling Nucs.  This year we have four spare nucs for sale.  The first two went without any advertising!

The first buyer left me a correx box which I managed to squeese the colony into.

I put a thick Nuc roof on top to stop the sun heating the small box too much.

Honey Harvest

Bees have done well this year. They built up quickly in the Spring and started packing honey in May. I put supers on every fortnight. 

Decapping the frames. 

Spinning off the honey. 

Chunk honey.

61lb of the hive. 

Bees settled in new hive

Looked in this morning after making a new roof and floor for the swarm. They are covering four national deep frames so around 8000 bees. I put a feeder on and fed them as fog and rain have set in.

Didn't have time to paint the floor. 

On a rainy morning I sealed them in the Hive and drove them up to Mid Wales, predicably the tape did not stick to the hive and after a six hour drive I opened the back of the van to find they had started to escape, thankfully they were all stuck to the outside of the hive so I quickly moved them to the wood.  Not sure what Cornish beees will think of the hills of Mid Wales.

Bee Swarm

July and Nicola and I went out to get a swarm from Constantine. Small black bees so I wonder if they are wild ones. 

Bee Swarms

The weather this year has been terrible for my bee keeping, and, as I have not been able to examine the hives regularly has resulted in swarming.  The following video is of a prime swarm taken from underneath my neighbours trampoline and hived in a National Box.