Caught my first swarm of the season. In my own backyard. I had been planning to do inspection this week end to see if any of my hives were thinking of swarming and split them but I was late..
I happened to be looking out the window and saw them swarm. Very cool to see, like a big tornado of bees! I had a swarm trap/ baited hive set up but instead of going into it they went underneath it… once they settled down it was an easy catch. Just held a box underneath them and shook them into it. They are now happily set up in their new home with some supplies I stole from another hive.
Probably easier than the split I was going to do. Just lucky that I was there to see them though. I will have to inspect all hives this weekend to see what the others are up to. Not sure why they went under the baited hive rather than into it. At least it did seem to attract them.