I was wondering if any one else has had swarm problems recently. I had a swarm yesterday in a 2 deep hive with a super that was partially drawn. Both deeps were drawn except for 2 plastic frames.Fortunately I caught the swarm and it seems happy. I was concerned about my others thinking the same way so I went through 6 more hives. 2 of them were 3 deeps with 2 supers each and both were about to swarm. I split them into 3 hives each there was plenty of bees,brood and queen cells. I have 3 others in about the same condition and they don't have any queencells. My bees continue to cap honey in the supers and they seem busy. I have 18 hives and thought I might be entering the slow part of the season.
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in my area, bees are swarming now on the blackberries. they had nothing until now and are just now building up to peak.
Yep! I have one hive and it swarmed two time's and I can not get any thing to deal with it.