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.

Catching a honey bee swarm is one of the most satisfying moments in urban beekeeping. On Thursday evening, we caught a swarm from our own hives at the Urban Horticulture Center. The swarm came from one of our own colonies — a sign that the hive was healthy enough to reproduce. How We Caught the Swarm We bumped the swarm cluster into a 5-gallon bucket...