Budding Cottage

As a swarm box, a good sized cardboard box works well.  Here is my box that seems to have captured a feline.

In the evening I checked how the bees were doing with their sugar syrup. Hive A were definitely gulping it down, and guarding the syrup container (or at least fanning for reinforcements just around the porter bee escape on the crown board when they saw me – I had accidentally left the porter bee escape […]