The Bees

It has been almost a month since my last post which is inexcusable but I'm going to come up with all kinds of excuses anyway.  Mostly involving being busy and torrential rain. Terrible excuses.


Anyway, Today has brought the dawn of something that had to be photographed: a swarm of Honeybees.

Honeybee (Apis mellifera) Swarm

That which looks like yellow snow is all Honeybees. Thousands of them. I am living in a Hitchcock film.


They originated in my neighbours hive and decided that the second said neighbours went away for the weekend, that was the time to swarm. 

Honeybee swarm resting in Dog Rose

I'm not going to go into the depths of why bees swarm as I would just be quoting the internet. This hive was about a year old and I think there were just too many off them so some scouts set off to find a new place, form a new colony. Certainly startled some barbecues in the neighbourhood.

So many Honeybees

They have now returned to a bush next to the hive they came from. I have a lot of footage of the swarm which I'm going to edit together soon so stand by for a little bee film.


Exciting stuff.