ACT Beekeepers collect swarms to maintain healthy worker population

By John Thistleton
Updated October 31 2015 - 10:13am, first published October 13 2015 - 4:30pm
  John Johnston from the Beekeepers Association of the ACT places  a swarm of over 60,000 bees into a new hive.  Photo: Jeffrey Chan
John Johnston from the Beekeepers Association of the ACT places a swarm of over 60,000 bees into a new hive. Photo: Jeffrey Chan
  A swarm of over 60,000 bees up a tree at the back of Stephen Beggs'  home, Theodore. Photo: Jeffrey Chan
A swarm of over 60,000 bees up a tree at the back of Stephen Beggs' home, Theodore. Photo: Jeffrey Chan
Beekeeper Ian Crabb  re-homing a bee swarm with newcomer Kevin Wode (left). Photo: Jay Cronan
Beekeeper Ian Crabb re-homing a bee swarm with newcomer Kevin Wode (left). Photo: Jay Cronan
Beekeeper Kevin Wode re-homing a swarm with newcomers to beekeeping in the ACT. Photo: Jay Cronan
Beekeeper Kevin Wode re-homing a swarm with newcomers to beekeeping in the ACT. Photo: Jay Cronan

Inviting fury, ACT beekeepers John Johnston and Stephen Beggs shook a branch coated with 60,000 bees in Theodore, at the peak of this spring's swarm season in Canberra.

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