>I caught another swarm late yesterday evening.  shook them off a blackberry
>vine into a new hive with six frames of drawn comb.  I had someone look at
>the hive and they said.  some are going in and out but some are swarming
>around the hive.  I did not move the hive after I caught the swarm.  I
>simply sat it on a milk crate.
>
>Sound normal?  Why the still swarming around the hive?
 
If a swarm does not immediately leave the hive box, it has adopted it as a
new home.  If the queen has not entered, the entire swarm will leave again
within 5 minutes.
 
Perhaps the swarming noted by your observer is bees orienting on the
entrance. All field bees will have to re-orient to the new location and
there is a lot of hovering for a day or so.  Sounds pretty right to me.
 
Betty McAdam>
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