Swarm Saturday!

A really cool thing happened during morning tea on Saturday. While I was sitting in between the two new Nuc-based hives, one of them decided to swarm. I had captured a swarm cluster several weeks ago, but seeing it happen was unbelievable. Judge for yourself.

Here are some still photos.

I rushed down to Forest Park and bought a new box but by the time I got back, they had "disappeared." Right before I left it appeared that they were trying to "go back in."

Strangely enough, I ended up finding a Queen on the ground in front of the hive, so I grabbed her and put her in the new box with some other bees just to see what happens. The weather in Atlanta is getting so cold that she'll probably die anyway. We'll see.