As a new-bee you can learn a lot by looking and observing your hive. Here are two behaviours that can sometimes be confused. Swarming and orientation flights. Swarming: Swarming is a honey bee colony's natural means of reproduction. In the process of swarming, a single colony splits into two or more distinct colonies. The queen leaves and about half the hive follows, workers filled with honey stores, to find and make a new home. Orientation flights: Bees take orientation flights in the days prec

Swarm removal! Swarming is a perfectly natural bee behavior that happens when a colony of bees needs to find a new place to live. This swarm wasn’t going to make its permanent home on this branch, they were just taking a little break there. While the bees are traveling to their new home, they have to stop so that the queen can rest because she is such a terrible flyer. Bees in swarms tend to be very docile since they don’t have any resources to defend, but you should always exercise caution arou