Why Bees Swarm
Swarming is the way in which honey bees procreate, it can occur at any time between April and June.
What happens is that the queen bee lays eggs in specially prepared wax cells that the worker bees have made, these eggs will later develop into new queens.
It then takes eight days for the newly laid egg to develop into a lava and for the lava to be sealed with a wax cap in its cell. this lave will than develop into a queen bee.
Once the first wax queen cell is sealed the reigning queen and
approximately half the worker bees (Anything that can fly) leave the hive to set up a new home.
Since this group of bees don’t know where they are going they will rest on something while scouts fly out to find a new home.
This ball of bees is a swarm; they are quite benign if left alone and the average swarm contains roughly 30,000 bees which is about the volume of a football.
The swarm can remain in one spot for several days however is is not un common for swarms to move sites. If bees are forced to remain in one spot for longer than 24 hours they may start to produce wax Comb,
This is a precautionary measure just incase the scouts fail to find a new Location and in these cases the bees will build a Wild hive where they hang.
