Today I was releasing a buck fast queen into an introduction cage as she had been in her original plastic cage for a week. I gripped the sides of the plastic cage, only for the bottom to shoot off and my queen to drop on the ground!
I frantically searched for her in the grass below for a while with no luck. Then I noticed that she was actually running around on my should...... I grabbed her with my thick gloves on but to my horror she started flying away!
I chased her round for a while in sheer panic and she actually turned around and landed in the open Nuc that she had came from. I didn't really know what to do for the best so I just shut the lid, that way at least I know that she is in there but I don't think it has done her chances of being excepted any favours.
What's the strangest thing that has happened to you while you have been down at your hives?