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Bee Keeping Club
Mrs Alizadeh sent this report:
‘It must be swarm season!
Bee keeping club visited the bees on Tuesday after school as usual, when we opened the hive, we found many queen cells; this means that the urge to swarm is on the bees! To prevent this happening, and losing half our bees, we performed a split, this means we took the queen and some of the bees and put them in another small hive - this makes them think they have already swarmed, leaving one queen cell to replace the ‘swarmed’ queen. If we are successful, we will have two hives of bees.
On Wednesday, I had a swarm call from Valley; there was a swarm in a tree out the front of the school. I went down to investigate with the beekeeper from Valley, and together Mrs Ling and myself managed to get the bees into a cardboard box. We left the box on the ground for all the flying bees to enter and gather around the queen. This was then left until after school, when we closed the box up and installed the bees in Invicta’s top bar hive.’