Starting a new mini album - don’t have a title yet for it -that will be filled with pages about facts, trivia, learning something new.

In March 2025, my colleagues and I were fascinated by the hundreds and hundreds of bees flying around outside our building. Before we knew it, they had completely covered the limbs of a small tree outside the building doors. I had to run downstairs for photos, of course!! I learned a few things that afternoon: 1) Our building has an apiary on the rooftop; 2) the honey is collected and they jar the honey that they sparingly gift (lucky me! My curiosity and enthusiasm earned me 2 jars - yum); and 3) Swarming.

Swarming usually happens in spring or summer, when the hive is thriving, and there’s lots of available nectar. When the hive is thriving and getting too crowded, the hive will split and the Queen Bee will take half of her worker bees in search of a new place to build a hive. But, of course, she’s too special to be going around searching for an appropriate location so scout bees disperse while all the others gather and wait. On this day, it was on this tree. A couple hours later, they were pretty much gone and the beekeeping/maintenance company went on a hunt to find where they were building their new hive so they could gently relocate them to another rooftop apiary.