Has the colony swarmed

This morning I’ve noticed a small but growing cluster on the land board of my hive…


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You need to do a brood check to find out if the colony swarmed or not. If your colony has swarmed, you’ll notice a large drop in bee numbers in the honey super. If you see that, you still need to do a brood check, just to make sure that something else hasn’t caused the numbers to drop.

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They have not swarmed. I believe with the warming weather bees sometimes just ‘hang about’ to cool off or whatever… didn’t swarm to my knowledge… brood box still teaming with activity and almost all the flow frame gaps have been filled in the super ready for honey to be stored… hopefully it happens soon… but just happy to be an observer