I had a Warré hive, floor, brood box, quilt box and roof sitting outside my back door. The box was given a scorch and I remembered the quilt box needed to have the hessian, but I ran out of time.

Anyway, some time since then a swarm has moved in and colonised it and because there was no division, has gone into a roof space, which will require me to do a cut out into a National unless I can quickly fashion some frames for the Warré.

My neighbour said she saw a load of bees the other day (prompting my inspection) and it would appear it has swarmed, as the roof space is banged out with nice looking brood, so can’t be a mating flight for a virgin.

I will move these in the next couple of days and consider what I am going to do with them in the meantime.

Here are a couple of videos of the bees. Take a look if you are interested