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One more today 1785

One magpie today 1816

Two today 1750

Worst possible place, virtually impossible to remove

They will not usually harm you. Leave them alone and they will leave you alone. Swarming bees are usually placid.

Bees that swarm in trees and other such exposed objects are only temporary. A colony of honey bees cannot survive outside. They will move on usually after a few hours or the following day. If for any reason they don’t move on, they will die. However, if you know of a beekeeper in your area, give them a ring and they will collect them and make good use of them. You should have a local beekeepers association who will have a list of beekeepers willing to collect them for free. These will then either be added to the beekeeper’s own apiary, or they will go to a beginner who is just starting out.

Have a look on here, you should see what it should have come with. They also sell covers if you can’t find a lid. Might be worth contacting them, you never know, they might have a spare lid kicking round. https://www.castironchimineas.co.uk/home.htm#

That is true. There should also be a little tool to open and close the door when it’s hot. However, you can just use a stick or similar item for that.

If you feel the inside about the same level as the bottom of the door, you will feel some flat ledges that the grate fits on. The grate allows air under the fire and provides space as an ash pit.

Where is collection from?

Got the same chimenea. The door is still ok on ours, it’s the split grate inside that went on ours. Got a new one off Amazon. 👍

One this morning 1719

Make a good hunter dog!

Thank you. There are two acres of it, mostly trees.

Worth a go, bees can travel a fair distance. A cheaper option is to set up a nucleus box which is essentially, a smaller hive of about five frames. Then, if you are lucky, you just transfer the bees to a full size hive. I once caught a swarm in a cardboard box that I had stored some old frames of comb in.

Bees can scout a hive for weeks then disappear all of a sudden. They have either chosen another location or the beekeeper has been successful in his swarm control. Watching a swarm arrive is one of the most awesome sights you can see. There is very little danger as swarming bees are usually very placid. However, most people would find it quite a scary experience. If you are lucky enough to experience a swarm, don’t be afraid, just watch calmly. If you panic and flap around, you will upset the bees and they are likely to attack. I was about ten minutes or twelve feet away when I filmed this swarm with no bee suit on.

Someone else’s. It has been a bad year for bees swarming. People are putting it down to the bad weather which has affected beekeeper’s regularity of hive inspections, thus missing the signs of imminent swarming. Always worth setting up a bait hive, you may even catch one of your own swarms if you are lucky. 👍

It’s a spare hive that I had, so I just set it up with one frame of old comb and three or four frames of new foundation. A couple of drops of lemongrass oil adds to the attraction. They are not my bees (well, they are now 😁). Scout bees have been showing quite a bit of interest over the last couple of weeks. One of the main rolls a beekeeper has to perform is swarm control, ie. trying to dissuade your bees from swarming. So, whoever these bees used to belong to was not quite on the ball and subsequently, has lost half of his colony. This means his honey harvest will suffer this year as his remaining bees have to build up that colony again.

Arrived today (13th June 2021) at 12:30pm. The hive was set up as a bait hive.

One more taken on the bird feeder. 1580

One early (for me at least) this morning 1564

Nice work, must take her a while to do? 👌👌👌👌👍👍👍👍

Now there’s a term I have not heard before!🤔😁😂 Glad things are all tickety boo with you 👍

Delilah - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

One on my nuts this morning. 995