# Look familiar to anyone? **URL:** \ **Category:** Bearding\ **Created:** [June 2, 2016, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/look-familiar-to-anyone/7255 "2016-06-02T11:38:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gatliff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Gatliff](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Gatliff)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/look-familiar-to-anyone/7255/1 "2016-06-02T11:38:43Z")
Hey Friends, Just got back from a week away. It’s 7:30am (61F. 16C.)and here’s what is happening at the hive entrance. Also, the flow frame I can see through the window is about half-full. I installed a nuc May 9. Is this swarming behavior? Cordially, Mike Gatliff ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/2X/2/2c5a491f4d6186d34ae0485cb55793674ed6d13c.jpeg) ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/2X/1/10805098a8c2513c3f7f404b34def694cbc95e2c.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Chipper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cdc98d/32.png) [@Chipper](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Chipper)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 12:13pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/look-familiar-to-anyone/7255/2 "2016-06-02T12:13:56Z")
No, I don’t think so. It’s just hanging out enjoying the cool! ---
**Author:** ![Gatliff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Gatliff](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Gatliff)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/look-familiar-to-anyone/7255/3 "2016-06-02T13:43:46Z")
I think you’re right - either that or dealing with a threat to the hive. They had dispersed after 30 minutes. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Yeager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/john_yeager/32/4082_2.png) [@John\_Yeager](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/John_Yeager)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/look-familiar-to-anyone/7255/4 "2016-06-02T14:09:05Z")
It looks like pictures of bearding that I have seen other’s post on this forum. Here is a link to a good article I found regarding bearding. Hope it helps. > **[The Basics of Bearding](https://beebuilt.com/blogs/backyard-beekeeping-blog/14855969-the-basics-of-bearding)** > > We've gotten a lot of questions this year from new beekeepers regarding bees clustering on the front of their hives. What is it? Why are bees doing it? Is it no ---
**Author:** ![Dawn\_SD](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/dawn_sd/32/15954_2.png) [@Dawn\_SD](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Dawn_SD)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 2:33pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/look-familiar-to-anyone/7255/5 "2016-06-02T14:33:23Z")
They could be washboarding too, but without video, it is difficult to tell. Not swarming, and not really enough for bearding, but maybe they are the early birds (bees) and a real beard will build up later. ---
**Author:** ![Semaphore](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/semaphore/32/14994_2.png) [@Semaphore](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Semaphore)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/look-familiar-to-anyone/7255/6 "2016-06-02T15:48:24Z")
You’ll be seeing behavior like that- and a lot more soon enough: ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/2X/9/962f39157e75f374235d0ad9b441d50605798179.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![mbeeee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/mbeeee/32/4168_2.png) [@mbeeee](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/mbeeee)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/look-familiar-to-anyone/7255/7 "2016-06-02T16:57:23Z")
One of my hives was doing this yesterday…first 80 degree day of the year. It was also the more robust (population-wise) hive of my two. When I went inside to inspect, it also turned out that the bees had happily drawn out all of the foundationless frames in the brood box, had filled a large percentage with pollen/nectar/brood, and were covering all the frames. So I added a new box to the top…no signs of swarm cells, but it seemed like the right time. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Yeager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/john_yeager/32/4082_2.png) [@John\_Yeager](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/John_Yeager)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/look-familiar-to-anyone/7255/8 "2016-06-02T17:02:55Z")
Thanks for the lesson @Dawn_SD. Gave me another subject to read more up on. ---
**Author:** ![Bobby\_Thanepohn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/bobby_thanepohn/32/2503_2.png) [@Bobby\_Thanepohn](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Bobby_Thanepohn)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/look-familiar-to-anyone/7255/9 "2016-06-02T17:06:35Z")
Hot day, lots of bees outside. ---
**Author:** ![Gerald\_Nickel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/gerald_nickel/32/1910_2.png) [@Gerald\_Nickel](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Gerald_Nickel)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/look-familiar-to-anyone/7255/10 "2016-06-02T17:28:50Z")
Hi all, I’ll add my cents cents worth ! 😃. Nope ! Mine do that a lot … And they’re Happy Camper mostly. ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/2X/5/550acf0b9a0adcd8c8fb4e26c546b39cd775a001.jpg) we even have morning coffee together sometimes. Ta ta, Gerald. ---
**Author:** ![Gatliff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Gatliff](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/Gatliff)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 10:21am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/look-familiar-to-anyone/7255/11 "2016-06-03T10:21:12Z")
Thanks, friends. As a novice I appreciate very much the opportunity to ask a question and get immediate responses. ---
**Author:** ![sweetnature](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@sweetnature](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/sweetnature)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2016, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/look-familiar-to-anyone/7255/12 "2016-06-09T17:13:48Z")
Swarming is when a mass of bees gush out of the hive and swirl around in a cloud…quite facinating…then they start to land somewhere in a cluster…if the queen did not come with them they will begin to reenter the hive…but expect them to swarm again very soon…