Hello all,
yesterday I found we had no brood chambers available on the apiary, (except one old and decrepit antique), instead I fitted a super and quickly closed up.
Today 25/4 I asked Colin if he could loan the apiary the necessary gear to carry out swarm control and he kindly obliged.  We did a Demaree on Hive 7 and introduced a new queen. She is about 8 days old and laying.  Hive 7 proved to be preparing to swarm so we removed a sealed Queen cell and introduced that into the Mini Nuc that had raised the Queen for H7.

 On 14/5 Bill Mundy will be giving a demo of how to drive a colony of feral bees, (Colin's), up into a new brood chamber.

Barry