Here is the inside of the hive that is located in one of our orchards. You can see the additional wax that the bees have made as they run out of space in the frames.
When the hive gets overcrowded - which it did yesterday - then the bees swarm. The queen and about 20,000 bees left the hive and started hovering above the barn finally settling on a corner and forming a great ball about 12ft up.
We contacted local beekeepers to see if they wanted to come and collect the swarm. A couple of hours later they were here and getting the bees into a box to take to a new hive.
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