Swarm-4/28/18

[Jacobs]

I got a call late this afternoon about a swarm a little bigger than a softball 10 feet up in a tree. I shook them into my swarm bucket and saw the queen on the outside of the bucket top. She flew back up to the tree and I got her by hand and put her in the bucket. I hived them in a 5 frame medium nuc with room to spare.

[mike91553]

On a swarm that small could that be a queen taking a rest stop back from her mating flight?

[Jacobs]

That thought never occurred to me, but it did look like scouts were flying out and back to the cluster. It was behaving like a swarm in search of a home.