Shook Swarms at Lydney

Well if you missed yesterday session at the apiary then you missed a treat.  It was a lovely hot sunny evening and it was a good job because we achieved a lot.  We did two shook swarms. on hive 5 , planned for month ago and hive 3. One into a ROSE HIVE  and the other into an langstroth.   To do a shook swarm 1) Smoke heavily 2) leave for 5 mins.  3) Move hive from original site. 4) Find queen and place her in new box. 5) Shake all bees off into new hive. 6) Feed hive   7) don't forget to put queen excluder between floor and brood chamber so that she cannot get out

There were two more splits on hives.   Hive 15 had swarmed and were hanging on the mesh floor. So this was sorted out. One of the splits from last week, was reunited with the original collony as there were no viable queen cells... with a debate on the merits of emergency queen cells. 

Queen rearing - was a complete wash out, with not one been taken.  Not sure why but we know one thing they were over fed. See photos, and video below.  More beekeeping tommorow, Sunday and so on and so on.....