Swarming Bees

Swarming is mainly a spring phenomenon where a new honey bee colony is formed when the queen bee leaves the colony with a large group of worker bees. 

Working in my bee yard, and noticed bees gathering in a nearby tree. Lucky I had a swarm box to catch them and they were on a branch that I could reach.

Set up brood box and dumped the bees from the swarm box into it. 

The bees began fanning to let everyone know where to go. Look  all the bees began marching into the hive following the queen.

Not sure of the origin of the first swarm I caught. The second swarm was from my newest hive so was very happy I captured those "girls". I now have two new hives in addition to my older two hives. My bee yard is growing!