After successfully getting the swarm into the skep it was taken to Scald End. The swarm was very small and needed some time to build up.
The next stage for the swarm is to be transferred into a small bee hive called a nuc ['nucleus'].
It has half the number of frames of a full size hive
Once the bees had been transferred to the nuc I left them alone for a few weeks other than to keep the syrup feed topped up.
I then thought I would have a look to see whats going on.
Although as far as I knew the queen wasn't marked [she would have come from a bee hive managed by a bee keeper], you can tell if a colony has a laying queen by looking for open brood which will be less than 3 days old.
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