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Swarm from a tree

Last year my friend had a call in July about a swarm that had come from a big old tree. The cavity couldn’t bee very big. And the swarm was not big. http://www.elgon.es/diary/?p=235 But the bees in the tree survived the

Erik July 14, 2014 Breeding, Cellsize, Elgon, Feral bees, Swarm, Varroa Read more

The queen of the wall

The queen of the wall

Five days after I hived the swarm from the wall I checked it. I placed it about three km from the wall where it originated, to help form the ”stock of the region”. It wasn’t a very big swarm, but

Erik July 7, 2014May 29, 2020 Elgon, Featured, Feral bees, Varroa, Virus Read more

Feral swarm

Tonight at half past nine after a telephone call, I took a swarm in a raspberry bush which came from bee colony in a wall in an old house 20 meters away. The house is situated ”in the middle of

Erik June 29, 2014June 30, 2014 Elgon, Feral bees, Swarm, Uncategorized Read more

Feral bees enlarged to 4.9

After varroa mites arrived  5+ years ago feral bees disappeared. Actually around here we heard about a few before that, in the church tower and the old water tower at the railway. And when we heard about them it was

Erik November 21, 2013November 21, 2013 Cellsize, Feral bees Read more
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