Novice Beekeeper

So, I rang Warren and he sat me down. Calmly and wisely he counseled against upsetting bees under these extreme weather conditions. Lesson: A good beek will try to look at the world through bee's eyes. There was also a lesson here about me needing more patience , but that was more personal. My Christmas deadline passed, I wouldn't be able to have a box of bees to give my sister within the week, possibly not even before New Year. As a horrid and torrid New Year period of heatwaves amd drpught passed, stories came out about breaks losing commercial quantities of hives in National Parks. The losses experienced buy amateur beeks was less well known, and in areas not directly fire-effected, bees were under stress. Looking at the world through bee's eyes was very painful. But as January came to a close and conditions began to ease Warren gave me the nod. Very cautiously her agreed to consider transferring his bees from a 5 frame nuc, and which "seemed to be going well&quo