Swarming is the process which honey bee colonies reproduce to form new colonies. When a honey bee colony outgrows its home, the bees swarm. They also swarm when the hive becomes too congested, or too populated for the queen’s pheromones to control the workforce. Then when it’s time to swarm, the workers give each other a signal that it is time to swarm. Our bees swarmed on June 25, 2022.
Before the swarm:
This is after the swarm
