At 05:50 PM 9/22/2003, you wrote:
>  Can you tell me why a swarm would swarm a second time? Do I still
>stand a chance that they will swarm a third time?

I've seen it happen twice this year.  I have no real explanation for
it.  Perhaps they were not happy where I put them, two close to the other
hives maybe.  Or possibly they hadn't really settled in when foragers
decided on another location.  In both cases I know they stayed
overnight.  And in one of them I'm sure the queen was in the hive because I
picked her up myself.  The swarm had either fallen short of a tree, or had
fallen from the tree because it was a 2 foot circle of bees on the ground
with the queen in the dead center.  I picked her up, put her in a hive and
the rest walked right in.  I have no good explanation why the would up and
leave the next day.

-Tim

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