Beekeeping is a rollercoaster hobby! After a successful honey harvest
last year the bees, in 2 hives were tucked up for the winter and we
crossed our fingers! Unfortunately only 1 hive survived but this hive
was doing well so we decided to split the hive into 2 to avoid the
chance of the bees swarming. We are not sure how successful this was as
neither hive seemd to be doing well so last weekend we added a swarm
from another beekeepr to the weaker of the 2 hives.A swarm occurs when
the number of bees in the hive exceeds the space available and roughly
half of the bees fly off with a new queen to find a new home. Both hives
now seem quite busy so hopefully they will all settle down, raise lots
of brood and start producing some honey!