Hive swarmed does this mean a failing queen?

[Ray Hall]

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?

[buzzbee]

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?

[tom]

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 :)

[Ray Hall]

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.

[Michael Bush]

Successful hives swarm.  Failing hives supersede the queen.  They don't swarm.