This was absolutely amazing!! My son walked out to see the honeybees leaving one of the hives..they were pouring out of the hive...and were everywhere!! Then they all went to this bush...The Queen is in the middle of this ball of bees...They surround her to protect her...while they wait for the scouts to come back with their new home location..My husband and son were able to get them all into a new hive with plenty of room.....and they are already busy working on their new home!!
Swarming is the natural means of reproduction of honey bee colonies. A new honey bee colony is formed when the queen bee leaves the colony with a large group of worker bees, a process called swarming. In the prime swarm, about 60% of the worker bees leave the original hive location with the old queen. This swarm can contain thousands to tens of thousands of bees. Swarming is mainly a spring phenomenon, usually within a two- or three-week period depending on the locale, but occasional swarms can happen throughout the producing season.
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