in a swarm is there alway a queen in a ball of bees ???
hey guys got a softball size swarm from a tree the other day , my question is , is it a sure thing that a queen is in
the middle of that ball of bees???? reason i ask is someone told me the swarm was bigger and someone before me
got half of the bees and i wonder if i have the better half and the one with the queen?
Re: in a swarm is there alway a queen in a ball of bees ???
Chances are he has the queen and you have the left over scouts--unless he made a real mess when collecting, knocking bees all over the place. Scouts and leftover bees will return to the same spot and cluster anyway--they don't know what else to do and can smell the remnants of the swarm on the resting spot.