I went out to water the garden and noticed a swarm settling into a tree on our property line. My neighbor had told me he saw a swarm yesterday that flew right over his head and down the public staircase at the end of my block. "And then they took a hard right!" he said. They may have come from our Big Hive and this might be a little afterswarm.
The swarm located itself in a very hard to reach spot in this tree. We had to work really hard to get a ladder up there but finally we figured out a safe way to catch them and bring them down into the box we had set out for them.
A few of the bees fell into this Philadelphus shrub when we shook them out of the tree. By dark they had all flown into the hive to be with their queen. At least we THINK there is a queen. We'll see in a few days if there are any eggs.
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