Yesterday we went to our next door neighbours for a Royal wedding party and as we arrived at about 2pm and went into the garden I could hear bees. Giles and I walked down to the hedge at the end and the sky was full of bees so the Garden hive had swarmed.
I eventually found that I could scramble through a gap in the hedge and fight my way through the brambles and nettles behind our gardens and I could see the girls clustered in some old brambles and scrub.
Suzanne came round and suited up. We became the party entertainment, trogging up and down the garden in our beesuits.
Armed with smoker and sheets secateurs and cardboard boxes we fought our way to the swarm and snipped away at bits of nettle and branches until we could catch them in the box, put it down on the sheet and propped it up with a branch. Giles found another cluster of bees a few feet away and we did the same again. I don't think there was a queen in this group so they had probably got separated from the others.
Later I went and covered the box with a black plastic bag to keep out the rain since I had no home for them that evening. They were all snug in there so hopefully they would stay put until I would be able to collect them tomorrow.
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