We started bee keeping last year so we still have so much to learn. Yesterday we drove down to Cornwall to pick up our second hive of native bees.

Collecting the bees from Duchy College apiary. The bees are in the small wooden box called a NUC.

Unfortunately the entrance bung wasn’t secure and before long we had a car full of a couple of dozen bees. Bung back in, the loose bees were calm and well behaved on the 2 hour drive home.

We left the bees to calm down overnight in their little blue NUC
Then slowly moved them into their new home in the morning
We had a bit of resizing to do as we have Quadratic Hives which are a quarter of the volume and half the width of a conventional hive
Putting the resized comb into a Quadratic Frame
The Quadratic Hive was then fully reassembled. There are two hive towers next to each other in this picture
Then we left the bees in peace to calm down and clean up all the spilt honey

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