#swarming bees

[bolaneno]

This morning, I was greeted by a bee swarm visiting my fig tree🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝.

[crudlynaturephotos]

[nowscience-blog]

This is an amazing defensive behaviour used by honey bees to defend against wasps and hornets

This shimmering a very interesting defence strategy. The emergent intelligence of social insects never ceases to amaze me.

[bolaneno]

The swarming bees have already flown away. That was so cool to watch. They sometimes stay a few hours or a few days. I hope they find a safe place to build their hive, where no humans can disturb them or vice versa.

When they left, I could hear a great rushing, buzzing sound fly over my house. It was quite loud too!

Their visit felt like a little unexpected blessing💛🐝💛. Good luck, bees...

[bolaneno]

Another bee swarm visited me this morning; they gathered in my elderberry tree🐝🌳🐝.

[bolaneno]

I was about to go water my garden when I saw these bees swarming on my fig tree 😮🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝. I had never seen bees doing this in real life before.

They are so heavy that one of the fig tree limbs is bowing down with their weight. So fascinating and scary at the same time. They usually only swarm for a day or so and then move on in search of a better hive site.

[sallyjadlow]

Swarm Saga

Recently, my son-in-law informed me we had a swarm of bees near our bee yard at our farm hanging from a low branch. My son and I jumped into our bee suits and went to work, quick, before they could fly off somewhere.  We placed a hive box under them. I took a big stick and smacked the branch–hard. The bees fell in a heap on the box. We let them rest about a half hour. They settled in nicely. I…

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