Bumblin' Bee

Here are bees prepairing to swarm out of our decorator garden hive. Approximately 50% of the bees will leave. They will seek out a resting place to regroup for a couple days, like your eves, a tree brach, fence post...then they will all fly to their final destination that the scout bees have picked out. Who goes and who stays in the original hive? Nobody knows...maybe they have a lottery system.

When bees are hungry they'll get food from any source. They found my oriole feeder and lapped it up. Might as well feed the bees, never attracted any orioles anyway.

Bees are one of the few insects that can fly backward. They have 4 wings and 5 eyes! I was filming at my hives and caught this. The only bird that can fly backwards is the hummingbird.

Took a midsummer walk down Bee Lane

A swarm of bees literally dropped out of a high tree branch onto the ground. So I got an empty hive body and set it in front of the pile of bees. By the time I got my camera out they all at once turned in the same direction towards the box and marched right on in. The queen bee was with them. Some describe it as what the Red Sea crossing must of looked like...or our southern border.

A full bee package install video..with the best commentary

These bees swarmed out of one of my hives and landed on my fruit tree.