Awaiting a new swarm in my new Technoset Hive.
Key dates and log of activities
2/3/26 Empty hive installed and ready. This is a new hive that I am trying made by Technoset in Greece. My initial review is here. I will fill this with a swarm or a colony from one of my over wintered nucs if they expand enough in time.
28/2/26 BWH did not survive the winter.All bees lost.
28/06/25 Colony installed. HUGE swarm from the primary school. Inserted into the hive with 5 frames of bees. The swarm had been on the frames for 2 days and had already laid some eggs. Figured it would be silly to put them into a poly nuc for a week or two and then transfer them to the hive when i had a hive spare and not a poly nuc. They were strangely well behaved as they were horrible 2 days ago when I collected them as a swarm.
I cannot seem to find the hive heart anywhere. I thought it was inside the purple wood hive but there doesn’t seem to be a heart there either.
18/5/25 Currently empty. Awaiting a swarm or a split to grow.
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