Originally Posted by dgavin

Bee Counts:

I'm stopping my bee counting experiment as a swarm of around 20,000 bees has been roaming around south salem looking for a nesting location. (There is an article in the statesmen journal newpaper about it last week)

However overall, there still seems to be more bumblebees doing the polinating then honey bees. I suspect once that superswarm settles someplace the honeybees will resume thier harvesting.

Anyone have any idea's why honey bee's would form such a large swarm? my Understanding is a average nest usually only has around 2000 bee's, so it's about 10 nests worth of them