Good day.
I have had a couple of flow hives for a couple years. Just joined and this is my first post. Nice to not be a lurker anymore.
This morning I went out to till my garden, but it was too wet. I looked up into my peach tree to see if any peaches started yet, and saw a swarm. The swarm was about 15 yards from my hives.
While we were getting stuff set up to catch the swarm, I saw a second swarm flying around…this was also about 15yds from my hives. What’s going on?
Anyway we proceeded to catch the 1st swarm and put in a nuc box. (I have not see the sexond swarm since the sighting…they were flying)
A little more detail…our strongest hive seemed fine today when we pulled a frame of brood to put with the swarm…our weaker hive, we had queen cells in it a few weeks ago when we inspected and they had gobs or room and empty frames. That a queen could lay into if she wanted. This hive was very weak coming out of winter and had lots of die off compared to the stronger hive. Anyway we thought since we found QCs in it they were going to replace her. But today the weaker hive seemed fine as well.
Anyway I am wondering what might be going on why we saw multiple swarms around our hives? Any thoughts?