Honey Bee Swarming - A swarm of bees enter a hive - Part 1

A swarm of honeybees, as shown just after their descent from the sky, all the way up to their entrance into the hive - taking nearly 20 minutes!

If you look closely, you can see the worker bees 'fanning' on the hive, and lifting their abdomens into the air. During this process, the workers excrete pheromones which tells all of the other bees "This is our new home - hurry up and move in!!!".

Honeybees are actually at their calmest whilst swarming, so if you see a swarm - don't panic! Just slowly walk to a safe distance.

Part 1 of 2 videos.

From http://www.cornwallhoney.co.uk

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• Insect
• bee
• swarm
• swarming
• bees
• honeybee
• honey
• beekeeping
• hive
• summer
• countryside
• Wildlife

[saintron60]

Please... Just look up on the Inet your nearest bee keeper if a HoneyBee swarm shows up. They are more than happy to come remove them for you for free. Wasps and other critters are different. Mankind would starve were it not for the HoneyBee. They only swarm when they outgrow "population" their current hives.

[finalfanta25]

time to go put a giant hornet nest in there. those things can kill a whole hive with barely 50. they are spartan warriors haha

[DeusPayne]

vuvuzelas!

[RigsPGT]

My new hive was looking exactly the same and im afraid they swarmed somewhere else because i got a call from my mother saying that the whole backyard was filled with bees flying around.

When i got home i found the same picture as shown in the video and quickly i got my tools and an empty hive to sweep them in the new hive. Now everything went back to normal but i hope the queen didnt disappear!

[briangorrell]

@antiwardotcom Here I am!

[briangorrell]

I was stung last year and I'm still not over it.

Terrified of bees

[soraroxasdude2]

@warspitejr me 2

[warspitejr]

i loved bees untill one stung me...

[Medditerranean]

Well, I love bees. Where I live, I collect honeybees and place them in hives, partially because I like this thing called the BeeCare Society. The bees are all doing well. But where I live, you only find at most 4 bumblebees in one day in a whole field of flowers, and about 100 honeybees. I REALLY want bumblebees. Solitatry bees are little speed maniacs.

[Medditerranean]

You go, little fellows!