Bees Bee Gone

Keeping Bees in a Suburban Backyard is a Wonderful thing.

However! They are a Lot of work.  You can't just plop a Flow Hive on the top of a Box full of Bees and that's the end of it until they fill it with Honey.

There are Brood Inspections and Disease Checks and Maintenance to be done in the Brood (Bottom) Box.

Which means lifting a VERY heavy Flow Hive Box off the top.  It can have around 3kg of Honey per Frame x 7 Frames Plus the 9 kg weight of the Frames plus Box.

If you have the time and help - It can be a very rewarding Hobby.

We had a very strong Queen and when the Girls Swarmed last year 

It was one of the biggest Swarms our Bee Keeper contact had ever seen.

One Year to the Day later they swarmed again - even after doing a Hive Split.  This time they went back over our Neighbours fence and also into HER neighbours garden. Another large Swarm.

This was more than I could handle. We decided to Surrender the Girls.

Our Bee Keeper Contact had been working with the recent Varroa Mite Quarantine crew and a lot of hives had to be destroyed .  

A Strong Disease Free Colony would not be hard to Rehome.

It was sad to see them go.  

But I have had progress reports and they are doing very well in Macedon.