Package bee £160 each shaken from UK overwinterd hives
The bees come to you free of any wax hive disease. .
You can shake the bees into any type of hive or size..
You can use to strengthen assisting weak stocks..
Use the swarm on stores of good comb that would otherwise deteriorate..
Swarms purchased early in April at £160 each can equal or beat over-wintered stocks into full colony’s.
We shake 3.1/2 pound of bees from overwintered UK stocks into a specially made swarm box that holds the newly mated Queen, the bees and food.
We place 5 of these blue boxes into safe holding crates for any journey that has to be made.
You will already have placed your empty hive ready to receive the bees and added 3/4 frames of drown comb and a frame feeder full of syrup.
On receipt of your 3.1/2 pound Swarm Package take to a cool dark place and give a dose of syrup by spraying on the gauze the same evening the bees should be hived in the position they are to occupy, Well feed bees are better to manipulate and will settle down quickly making clusters and will form new wax foundation easily.
The Swarm Package should only be opened at the hive its intended for,
On receiving your package of bee’s un-screw the two top bars of the traveling case and pull out the blue swarm box’s,
1. Now just imagine you have a natural swarm remove the queen and take note the candy’s intact and is soft for the bees to eat her out, remove the candy door place her still in her cage into her new home (preferably) between two new drawn combs shake the 3.1/2 mass of bees into the hive there new home.
as to our video The bees will release the queen she will start laying within three days. Compress the frames with the bees brood nest, into a tight nest up against the wall of the brood box AND OVER THE ENTRANCE.
2. place the new boxes on its side into the national hive remove the queen place her between the frames open the door letting the bees walk out and join the queen remove the box when empty less stress?
DONT POKE AROUND IN THE NEST looking for the queen or eggs
Give 10 TO 20 DAYS for the bees to settle down.
The cost of each swarm is £160 in none return boxs
The packages box doesn’t have any frames or wax foundation.
1 box can be bought ONLY when separated from crate @ £160. When in stock,
5 swarms in crate £160 each works out £775 collected.
A pallet of 100 swarms in 10 crates of 5 = £150 each collected, UK MAINLAND ONLY
