First Swarm of the year - we're betting on a good season!

Newbury Swarm

You know the beekeeping season is well underway when you start to get swarm calls. This was the our first this year. We were informed of a large swarm on the window of a betting shop on Newbury High Street.

The swarm was spread over the window. Oddly lots of people were walking right by it when we arrived completely oblivious to the 20,000 bees right next to them.

I was able to get them into a box without too many problems attracting quite a crowd of people at times. I even managed to sell one jar of honey to a passing delivery driver!

It was a good size swarm and probably the first of many. They are now in one of our apiaries and hopefully will produce a good honey crop this year!