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i had a hive swarm today, im not really sure which hive it was i didnt have time to open them all up and see. The strange part is after i caught the swarm and got it back into a box there was a ton of fighting on the front porch. i put a reducer on the entrance and left them, but any ideas why there would be so much fighting?

i cut one branch out of the tree with the bees on it and put it into the hive body and then when i looked up at the tree there was another cluster. so i went up again and cut the second cluster out and put them in the hive. could i have caught two swarms?

Congrats!!! I have had a couple of swarms that I cut out of the tree and placed in the hive but looked back up in the tree and noticed that there was another cluster. In my case I had just missed the queen. Maybe this is what happened to you as well....or maybe you had 2 swarms. That may explain the fighting???? 2 queens in the same hive??? Too many variables for me. Maybe Wally or Kurt will have some insight.

Is it possible that one of your hive was being robbed out and the robbing was so bad that the colony absconded? This happened to me one year ago and they clustered in a tree and looked just like a swarm.

might have been. i went out yesterday and the swarm was gone. not sure what happened. one real weak hive is gone. so it might have been them.