A Colony of Honeybees Leaving 'our' 2023 Swarm Hive to Locate Another Hive & Increase Their Numbers! 💕🐝👏

It's so exciting to share space with honeybees! Today I was leaving the farm, looked up at one of our swarm hives to find an exciting surprise! I didn't have a mic so please forgive the spontaneous 'noise', lol! A small colony of honeybees occupied this swarm hive at the end of summer last year, so we left them alone. We didn't want to take a chance of relocating them into a bigger hive because they may not have been able to build enough honey frames to get through winter. Here they are today! They survived winter on their own and they are having their swarm departure meeting on the outside of the hive! The bees you see here are taking their Queen to a new, bigger hive and leaving 1/2 of the colony behind who is currently raising a new Queen! It's so exciting to see a honeybee colony survive on their own without our interference! 🤗❤️🤗