In my last blog, I discussed how to identify signs of swarming. If you have strong and multiplying hives like me, it is inevitable that your little buzzers are gearing to split. Don’t lose half your bees. Take action to prevent it! There are numerous ways to prevent swarming. Don’t believe me? Just ask three […]
What is swarming? Swarming is a natural “splitting” behavior for honeybees that allows them to divide a single colony into two colonies. Like any other animal, dividing or reproducing allows their species to survive. However, it is unfortunate for a beekeeper to lose half their bees and a productive queen in the process. Therefore, I […]
Three years ago my wife went out to get the newspaper and came back in babbling something about an overnight bee invasion. I went out to find that bees had swarmed on one of our trees. There was no hive, just a moving, buzzy mass of bees crawling over one another, clinging to the branches […]
It’s swarm season y’all! Swarming is a totally natural and expected behavior from honey bees. However, while it might be instinctive for bees, it is in the beekeepers best interest to prevent swarming. Like most creatures in the animal kingdom, bees reproduce and split in order to keep their colony and their species thriving. Bees […]
