"Kathy E Cox" asked:
 Can you tell me why a swarm would swarm a second time?

I would suggest that this was a mating swarm that you collected and hived..
The queen had not finished mating and flew again - the bees would go with
her, as without a queen, eggs or young brood they would have no future.

In my experience this can often happen earlier in the season with very large
swarms headed by virgins (this can happen where a colony with a clipped
queen tries to swarm and the queen is lost - the first virgin to emerge
often leading out a very large swarm, especially if only one queen cell has
been left).

Peter Edwards
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