Today at work I.....

Cracking. I always used to laugh when people said they had a honey bee colony in a standard bird box...absolutely not ...get some photos ...and they were one of the many varieties of bumble bees :lol:
When I used to collect a lot more swarms, and someone told me they were in a bird box, I would wait until nearly dark and go along and collect there bird box, and leave a new one in its place, and just bring that one home and hang it up somewhere around the farm, they were obviously worried about them being there and I was never going to harm a coliney of bumbles.
 
Cracking. I always used to laugh when people said they had a honey bee colony in a standard bird box...absolutely not ...get some photos ...and they were one of the many varieties of bumble bees :lol:
Nearly always a white tailed tree bee, poxy things, love an old blue tit nest.
I normally kill them as they are non native and the drones appear aggresive
 
Very cool. out of interest, what size is that box section that's welded on top in the 2nd picture?
 
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