I believe girls are leaving home

[lastfling]

I came back from trip to store this morning to this?


I thought I had things under control in regards to swarming but evidently not.  LOL.  Now if they?ll light somewhere I can catch them all will be good - maybe.  Or could this be where they?ve decided to stay til moving on and I can capture them here?  The more I look since taking pic it does appear they?re clustering at the top .




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[Seeb]

In my unskilled eyes this looks like a dilemma. Hope you?ve got a hive ready

[lastfling]

In my unskilled eyes this looks like a dilemma. Hope you?ve got a hive ready

This will be the last dilemma I can handle without a visit to the supply store LOL.  All (well the majority) were rounded up and are currently in a new 10f box.


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[van from Arkansas]

Is this a hive take over?  Are the bees on the outside of the hive indeed from the inside of the hive?  No way to tell from the pics, just asking?

Two years ago, I watched a feral swarm, actually an adscond, collect on the top side of an active hive. 

[lastfling]

They came from inside. 


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[Ben Framed]

What has happened since you posted this? What is the temperature there today? Looks like the makings of a swarm. I do not know if the swarming queen or queens are the first, last, or somewhere in between to come out of the box in a situation like this, (IF that is what this is). If so, can you find and catch the queen or queens, (if she is on the outside)? Do you have queen clips? If you can find her, make a split immediately with herself and the clustered bees. Do you have a bee vac? I do not know that I would vacuum them not knowing if the queen was present. Or you can simply watch and see what they do. I would not want to see you lose a nice cluster like this one. Wishing you the best.


Phillip Hall

[lastfling]

This is how they wound up. 

Today was sunny, temp in low 70?s and very windy.

I set up a new box with a couple frames drawn comb and a frame of honey, remainder foundation.  I gathered as many of these as I could (which was the bulk of them) and transferred them to the new hive.  That was around 2:30.  Hopefully the queen was a part of the transfer.  As of 7 this evening everybody was still in the new hive so hopefully she?s there and they?ll decide to stay.


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[cao]

Two years ago I had a swarm land on the back of one of my hives.  I just happened to walk behind them to see the swarm.  They were there long enough that they were starting to form wax on the back of the hive.  I was able to give them a good home.

[van from Arkansas]

Cao, as described above, I witnessed the same.  I watched the feral swarm come to the hive.  I was at the right place at the right time.