Brought a new swarm in from the quay in St Ives. One of the largest swarms I have seen for some time, they were hanging from a wall behind some offices on the quay. When we arrived at about 2pm the swarm was getting ready to depart. There was a lot of waggle dancing on the surface, always a warning that they may be about to depart. Judith went off to Wood Green to collect the hive while I remained behind and kitted up.
Not wanting to loose the swarm, I brushed them off the wall into a skep. When Judith arrived back with the hive, they had mostly settled back down again. I knocked the bees out of the skep, directly into the hive. I had to place a cardboard ramp up to the door for the stragglers to march in.
At 8pm I returned and collected the hive and moved it to Wood Green. I placed it at the Bluebell Wood end of the apiary, just in case it was the power lines at the other end that caused the last swarm to abscond.
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