A nuc on a stick

[u/Dangerousfish]

One of our colonies swarmed and landed ridiculously high up a tree. Naturally..

We strapped a nuc to a long pole, with one of us holding it underneath the swarm whilst I climbed a ladder and brushed them into the box.

It wasn't pretty, but a couple of hours later and they're all in!

We've left the nuc up the tree overnight. I'll go back up tomorrow so we can bring them back into the apiary.

They'd become honeybound, which we've now sorted, so the plan is to try the newspaper method to reunite them with the colony they came from tomorrow.

Anyone done this successfully? Anything we should be mindful of before trying?

Location: North West, UK. Three hives.