Check this monster swarm out!!!

[Keith13]

Check this monster out!!!  I went to hive a swarm out at my bee yard yesterday and as I was walking around this is what I found!! They were in a tree behind my main hives. The bad thing is they were over a canal about 15 feet up so there was no way to get to them, though I had nowhere to put them had I caught them. It was cool to see a swarm that big  Easily 3 feet from top to bottom and about a foot wide probably 5 or 6 lbs. The really bad news though is I think they were my bees. I had a Crazy commy hive that has become large and mean that I don't like to fool with. They were going gangbusters they had two full deeps back in January I was trying to manage them by supering them it looks like I didn't to a great job though. But hopefully the queen they left behind will be a gentle queen if she picked up some of the feral traits.  The hive on the left is the Russian hive

Keith

[jimmy]

Keith I know a little about the "commy "hives . Just when you think they are going to make you alot of honey they disapear on you. Sorry about you loss.

[ArmucheeBee]

Keith

Do you (or anyone else) think the heat and humidity have a negative effect on the Russians and their "cold" genes?  Making them more swarmy?   Wondering.

[JP]

Sorry you couldn't get to them, maybe next time.


...JP

[annette]

Now that's what I'm talking about - that is a swarm!!!!  To bad you couldn't catch them.

[dpence]

Bummer you couldn't hive them, nice pictures though. 

David

[Keith13]

Keith

Do you (or anyone else) think the heat and humidity have a negative effect on the Russians and their "cold" genes?  Making them more swarmy?   Wondering.

That very well could be a consequence of the Russians

Keith

[1reb]

The  bees might be looking for JP..
he is the one who catch the most swarm here so far

Johnny