My fisrt ever hive swarmed the other day. Sure was a lot of bee's My question is does tthis mean that I need to requeen my hive. I was told that a swarming hive means the queen that took the swarm is failing is this true?
Swarming is a natural reproduction of the bee colonies.Your hive may have become crowded with no where for the queen to lay,and if theres a flow and the colony is healthy they may have done what comes natural.
Did you catch the swarm?
Hello
Had my big hive to swarm last thursday and it was a nice one and then i went and destroyed all queen cells except one. And i hived two packages yesterday and put a spare queen in the colony and then they sent out another swarm and this one had the young virgin with them so i am going to release the spare queen and let her take over.
Tom :)
I did catch the swarm and hived it. I also installed 3 packages that same day. I had someone tell me that the queen that went with the swarm is the orginal queen and she is failing. Is this true.
Successful hives swarm. Failing hives supersede the queen. They don't swarm.