Tom
I looked at the bait hive this afternoon and there were a lot of bees behaving a bit odd there. The bait hive has been quiet for most of the week since I checked some of the hives a week ago. I put a camera up and when I was checking it later there was a swarm moving in! They say a swarm in July is not worth a fly, we'll see. Looking at the hive now you'd think it was just a few scout bees unless you paid attention.
A view into the hive as it was getting dark tonight. There seems to be enough bees they are hanging below the frames.
I didn't observe any of my hives swarm in the last week since I checked them and the one high population hive stopped bearding after I swapped the supers around, which seemed odd but I doubt they swarmed that same day and took a week to move into the bait hive. Mystery bees or an earlier swarm that came back after outgrowing whatever they found.
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