Honey I'm home
Arkle and finn walked with eco mum.
Defrosted chest freezer and cleaned it up.
Tidied garage.
A visit to bees to take rapeseed honey off.
A swarm call out would deal with after dinner.
Dinner made.
Picked up gear for swarm collection.
About 12 foot up a yew tree. Choose ladders from the house as easier to get swarm.
Nuc box up the ladder with householder in bee suit holding ladder. First go most of the bees caught. Frames in roof on and bees fanning so queen in nuc.
Chat to household to explain what was happening and next steps, a trip up ladder with skep to get stragglers and walked in.
Dogs walked.
Closed up nuc and in garage to head tomorrow to new place.
Extra swarm before shaken into nuc box
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