[Hoxbar]

Tuesday my girls swarmed. I was too busy to check on them Wednesday. Thursday I checked on them and didn't see any activity and their feeder was empty. Today I went to check in them and the hive was empty! I looked around and found this, http://m.flickr.com/#/photos/[email protected]/4546946757/sizes/m/

this swarm seemed alot bigger than then one I lost. I was wondering if this might be the origional swarm or a new swarm? I've never heard of a swarm leaving their hive only to swarm a second time 15 feet from their origional location (first hive)?

 

[Michael Bush]

Yes they can swarm many times. Sometimes they get "swarming fever" and swarm themselves into oblivion. Usually, however they only swarm until about half of them have left.