You had mentioned that you had tried to attract feral bees recently and saw
> none.  If these were not your swarms, could it be that one of your neighbor
> started keeping bees and lost these swarms?


Yes, there is a new beekeeper who stared last year (lost her bees but
started again) and has Italians, so my dark Carniolans are very different.
They were my bees. As noted, they were well behaved.

I have seen very few swarms from my bees. Lots when I first started. I
remember my first one and stood under them as they swirled directly over me.
Had no idea what was going on. After I was told what happened I still could
not believe it since there still were "plenty of bees" in the hives. But
then, 1,000 bees seemed a lot.

The weather here has been rainy and cold so the swarm caught me by surprise
since they were not flying much. They are now supered up.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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