Bee Keeping

One of the hazards of bee keeping is when your bee’s leave home.  Mark, our resident bee keeper, hadn’t had his new bee’s very long when they did just that Balmaha was here last time when he was doing swarm prevention, I love their description “As if this wasn’t enough nature for one day, Mark padded off in his net curtains to deal with swarming bees. Thrupp always seems to have something going on when we stop here, there’s never a dull moment.”

Mark still doesn’t know why they did swarm as they were not due to swarm, and there were no queen cells. Fortunately there was another bee keeper having tea so Mark roped him in and the two of them donned suits and sorted the bees out. The other keepers wife, Delia, took the photographs – but she wasn’t wearing a suit. Mark was rather impressed at how close she got to them without being stung! I was sorry to have missed the excitement!

        

The photographs are truly stunning!