God blessed us with a wild colony of bees that is easily enough to set up 3 boxes. Heather from Heather's Blooming Gardens on Facebook, and I collected a wild swarm from somebody's back yard. While we were pulling out the brood comb to put in our boxes, a queen hatched from her cell in front of us!! SOOOOO NEAT!!
This colony was inside a discarded conveyor belt that had buckled and bent, creating a "bent pyramid" kind of shape.
So, anyway, we got the swarm collected and over to her house to kinda divy it up, and a mass of bees collected around a limb of one of her trees. We tried shaking them off, but they went right back! It's almost like they were trying to swarm right then. I have a second hive I'm going to offer them to see if they will take it up.
Anyway, here are some pics from the capture....
