This weekend was a busy one, swarm-wise.  I was monkeying around in the garden when I noticed a swarm out of one of my hives (dang it!) hanging on a rhubarb leaf.  I quickly saw the queen and placed the swarm, leaf and all, into an empty hive.  I waited around 5 minutes or so and watched as the queen casually walked out the door and flew back to the rhubarb patch.  I did this same routine 3 more times before it finally took (I think!).  I have never seen a swarm so stubborn!  Anyhow, I finished with them and headed home, planning to relax.  The postal sorting center in Charleston called and reported that they had a swarm on a pole in front of the employee entrance.  I can’t bear to let a swarm go so I packed up a hive box and headed into the city.  The picture above is of the post office swarm.  It was pretty small (like the rhubarb swarm) but I have too many bees in some other hives so I will try to balance them out.  This is the wrong time of year for swarms to do well through the winter but I may be able to baby them through.  We’ll see…