The Poultry Keeper

Itsybitsy · Joined: 11 Feb 2006 Posts: 1356 Location: Leicestershire

I have a bait hive set up on top of my feed shed. A bait hive is an alomost empty hive with maybe one or two frames of old wax comb, it's to entice the scout bees from a swarm in the hope of catching said swarm. 2 weeks ago we had some very strong winds and it blew the roof off the bait hive, yesterday I finally got round to doing something about it. I thought I'd put some fresher old comb in it as it is now prime swarming season. I climbed up onto the roof and there in the hive was a very nice nest with 4 eggs in it (chicken) Laughing

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kated · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 1837 Location: norfolk

I've heard of chocolate eggs and scotch eggs but honey eggs is a first!

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Sparklepeeps · Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 1947 Location: Cheshire

we had a swarm on monday morning, my next door neighbour spotted it, climbed up a ladder to the swarm (which was dangling off a very unsteady thin tree!) and plopped the lot of them in to a card board box. Then later in the evening when we were around (and more to the point... it was dusk and the bees were calming down), he emptied the box full of bees into his empty hive. We were able to watch it all from just 2 or 3 meters away, the bees were really quite docile. My neighbour had a photographer friend around who took photos of it all. If I manage to get them to send me the photos I will post them up for you to see.

Pekinout · Joined: 29 Apr 2008 Posts: 1032 Location: Cornwall

Ooh well done! There's not that many bees around these days with pesticides and virus and mites. Good luck with them.