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<p class="has-drop-cap">Earlier this week I travelled down to Banbury to stay overnight at my friends Gary and Caroline's to collect some more bees. It's a year since I <a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/archives/6388" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">euthanised my previous colony</a> because they were so aggressive.</p>
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<p>I packed the boot of the car with a brood box, tools and some honey jars for Gary. There wasn't a lot of space left so the bee suit and overnight bag had to go on the back seat.</p>
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<p class="has-drop-cap">It was reasonably straightforward. We opened up the small nucleus box (5 frames), took out the frames with the bees on them, placed them carefully in the larger brood box (room for 11 frames) and then tipped any reluctant bees into their new home.</p>
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<p>I have to confess I had some trepidation to handling bees again after <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/archives/6388" target="_blank">last years experience</a>. Everything went very smoothly and the bees were not at all aggressive even when I gave their old home a good shaking.</p>
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<p class="has-drop-cap">A visit to G&amp;C's wouldn't be complete without Gary demonstrating a new gadget. This time it was a drone and this was its maiden flight. He was a natural at the controls and soon had the drone whizzing back and forth, forcing me to duck out of the way on one occasion. We all lived to tell the tale, even the drone.</p>
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<p>We followed this event up with a take-away curry from <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://voujonbanbury.co.uk/" target="_blank">Voujon's in Banbury</a>. It has to be one of my all time, favourite curry houses.</p>
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<p class="has-drop-cap">After a two and a half hour nerve racking journey home worrying about the bees my first task was to put on my bee suit and carry them from the back of the car to their new site.</p>
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<p>Thankfully there were no escapees and after an initial flurry of bees exiting there was very little activity, probably because it was quite cool.</p>
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<p>I did have a minor problem with bees getting stuck in the part of the mesh that has been folded over but I soon released them and all is now well.</p>
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<p>More bee adventures in the coming weeks.</p>
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