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Bee Swarm - Apis mellifera
Copyright © 2009 Sue Huss

Bee Swarm - Apis mellifera
Fairfield, Iowa, Jefferson County, Iowa, USA
May 10, 2009
Size: Two feet or more
6:30 PM and the colony is settled in and densely compact.

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Contributed by Sue Huss on 10 May, 2009 - 6:32pm
Last updated 14 November, 2009 - 9:40pm

I am not completely sure
but I think this is either a colony on the move like you said, or a "branch" of a colony that left with a new queen to found a hive.

Either way, with these many bees there must be a queen in the center
… Vespula vulgaris, 10 May, 2009 - 7:21pm login or register to post comments

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