I was in the middle of doing an artificial swarm today and went to get
an empty nucleus hive. Opening it up I found a nest of baby mice! I was
stopped in my tracks and couldn’t bring myself to throw them out, they
looked so cute! Even though they were wrecking the comb in the hive, I
carefully placed it all back together and put it back exactly where it
was.
I went to another nuc and lifted the lid: to be greeted by a nest of
bumble bees, lovely reddish bottoms! That hive too went back exactly
where it was!
Third time lucky, the next nucleus box was empty and I was able to complete the procedure.
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