beekeeping – Wild Garden Travel

Posted on 9th Jul 20199th Jul 2019 by sarahjwm

Swarming Bees in my Garden

We recently started keeping bees in our garden and during this hot weather one of them swarmed. It was amazing to watch, and to see them walk up into their new home in such an orderly manner.

The swarm walking up into their new hive. We use Quadratic Hives which have a similar interior shape to a hollow tree.

Bees signalling by opening their Nasonov gland gland (the white area on their abdomen) and fanning their wings vigorously, to call all the other bees to the new hive entrance.

The swarm was shaken onto the bottom of the sheet. They then walk up into the new hive. The speed they walk up is amazing

Posted on 15th Jun 201916th Jun 2019 by sarahjwm

Saturday’s Garden – New Bees in our second hive #bees #beekeeping #ecology #biodiversity

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.