We have noticed that every spring a new queen is hatched and half the hive follows her to a new home. It is like a mini-tornado of bees swirling around the backyard. It can be quite intimidating with all those bees buzzing around.
This year the new bee group assembled at the top of our weeping willow clustered in a tight ball, I guess to stay warm. They were up there for three days before they must have identified their new home and moved on.
One thing Kevin noticed is that they raided a lot of the honey from the hive and were transporting it with them.
Meanwhile, the crabapple is blooming and humming loudly as the bees only need to make a short commute to gather their pollen wages.
So only one queen to a hive. All the hard working worker-bees are female. The only males are the drones who do nothing more than impregnate the queen. 
3 comments:
Great post and photos! It's amazing how much we humans imitate the bees... = )
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