I removed a swarm/colony from underneath a gable off of someone's master bedroom here in Eastern MA last week. It had constructed a 9 inch by 6 inch comb (exposed, an external colony, not behind the wall). It had only been there a very short time. The queen was mated and laying. The comb was completely hidden beneath the cluster of bees, resulting in some surprises when I did my usual manipulations to catch a swarm (swarm bees = gentle, colony bees = defend home to the death). Glad I was wearing my bee suit, and my bee vac investment paid off. It's been a wet summer here too. In the archives, one person implied a connection between a warm September and late swarms. However, it's been a cooler than usual summer here. Anybody out there with the long view (or data) who is willing to assert (or refute) a correlation between weather, temperature and late swarms that would allow us to knowledgably predict the climate patterns that lead to more late swarms?