Swarming
Articles on swarms and swarming.
- Swarm traps won’t cause your bees to swarm
- An open-air colony in a pear tree
- Honey bees have their own agenda
- Is swarming a curse or a blessing?
- The Price trap-out: no bee left behind
- Although we worry, honey bees are built to last
- Why extra space may not prevent swarming
- Things you can catch in a bait hive
- Bees in Idaho: a beekeeper’s first swarm
- My swarm arrived 38 minutes late
- Sun is for foraging, but bees love shade
- A swarm capture from the dark side
- The lifestyles of wild and healthy honey bees
- How to seduce a swarm, maybe
- An early swarm becomes two
- Should I destroy extra queen cells?
- Taranov split in photos
- Instant replay
- Home is the bee, home from the tree
- A pair of early swarms
- Her bees are so refined
- A summer swarm
- Build it, and they will come
- A swarm for the records
- Swarm sequel
- Swarm!
- A Taranov in time
- Tincture of queen: a homemade swarm lure
- A September swarm it was
- Bearding or swarming?
- My spider queen
- Backfilling: the sign of the swarm
- The iterative method of swarm capture
- My husband made me do it
- Details of the Taranov split
- Another take on Taranov
- The great divide: a Taranov split
- Intercaste queens and swarm guards
- How to use a swarm guard
- Pyramiding: getting bees to move up
- One that got away
- A beer box for bees
- To gleefully bludgeon a beemudgeon
- The catch-22 of beekeeping
- Managing packages and swarms
- A reader’s questions answered
- Beekeeping myths, half-truths, and rumors
- The Demaree method of swarm control
- How to open the brood nest
- Swarm sense
- How to checkerboard a hive
- Checkerboarding: the X-files of beekeeping
- Backfilling the brood nest
- Did the bees find their keeper?
- More thoughts on urban beekeeping
- Bee sweet and don’t ask me such things!
- Summer in the city: urban hive inspections
- A perfect swarm
- Two queens in one hive
- One trap catches two swarms . . . at the same time
- One tree, three swarms
- “A swarm in June . . .” No, make that two
- A swarm in June is worth a silver spoon
- Romancing the swarm: the dream of wild bees
- Playing hide and seek with a queen . . . or two
- Splitting the top-bar hive with a shook swarm
- What is a trap-out?
- Drones signal the onset of swarm season
- My design for a bait hive
- Monday morning myth: clipped wings prevent swarming
- Slatted racks: how should the slats be arranged?
- Why every beekeeper should use a nuc
- How to make a walkaway split
- How to start multiple hives from a swarm-control split
- How to make a swarm-control split
- Christmas swarm saved by caring homeowner
- Usurpation: when one colony takes over another
- Shaking the queen into shape
- Why do honey bees abscond in the fall?
- Honey bees ignore swarm traps
- Bearding is often confused with swarming
- How to prevent swarming with a Taranov board
- A walkaway split and the tiniest queen
- The swarm saga continues
- Aswarming we will go
- Follower boards in a Langstroth hive
- Preventing a swarm is not easy
- Is it a swarm cell or a supersedure cell?
- Swarm prevention: a duel with the forces of nature
- A swarm of European honey bees is relatively docile
- Absconding bees leave an empty hive
- Reversing brood boxes: when and why
- Drones signal the beginning of swarm season
- Two types of reproduction