time on your hands

In the coming weeks all if not most of us, will have more time on our hands than we ever expected.
So I thought I would start a post.
For the last ten years there were absolutely no honey bees’ in my garden, at east none that I could see.
I had hundreds if not thousands’ of bumble bees’ visit a beech hedge every May; so much so, that I
Changed the way I cut; the hedge’ every couple off weeks’ rather than once a year, over the last five or six years to prolong the new growth.
I would sit outside in the evening and listen to an orchestra off bumble bees.
The bumble bees, farmed the aphids’ that fed on the new emerging leaves, the bees fed off the honeydew
2017 I saw what I thought was a honey bee it was so long since I had seen one I was not sure.
2018 again none were to be seen
So last year I decided to do something about it
I built swarm traps and pleased them all around cork city about fifteen I total
And caught two swarms, one on the Southside of the city and one on the north side.
I then made two splits; of off these’ so went into the winter with four hives; all as off today, have survived.
Anyone making here own beehives and frames
I started last year making them from recycled wood
Anything from pallets to lover doors and in between .
Since a picture pants a thousand words I will post what I have done so far
I use modified Rose Hive method ten frames instead of twelve.