They don't come much easier;
Etienne fellow member of the Denderbiekes, has 11 hives full of bees, one of his swarmed into a middle sized apple tree 30m from the hive, via Ghislain a mail went out, asking if anybody wanted to go and collect it at about 2030 saturday evening.
Luckily i saw it sunday morning around 0830, rang and nobody else had claimed it, so off i set to a rather posh part of the world, Petit Enghien.
Etienne and his wife farm 14 hectares as hobby farmers, and keep bees, an emaculate place where the grass looks painted, on the edge of the posh area, where his house would fit into a garage :-).
Etienne had already got the swarm into a straw skep, the stragglers were back on the tree, so i knocked them into my pampers box, wrapped up the skep in a large hesian sack, and headed off. Not wothout finding out that he had been a steel worker all his life (wind turbines!)
They now live in the corner of the field, by the willow tree called the Admiral, i fed them 10kg's of syrup which had all gone by the following weekend.
Quite a large swarm, they took a day to all go into the hive, and they probably need a new lift soon.
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