Swarm

This makes 19 swarms that we have caught this year.

We started a new apiary on a farm near Carnation, Washington.

Our happy news this year is that we lost only 4 out of 24 hives last winter.

We caught a swarm on Thursday evening. The swarm was from our own bees at the Urban Horticulture Center. I did not think of getting my camera out until we had bumped the swarm into a 5 gallon bucket and poured the bees into a waiting hive. Here the bees on the inner cover of the hive are scent fanning, rears in the air and...