{"id":135,"date":"2012-04-20T22:34:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T21:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dbka.org.uk\/?page_id=135"},"modified":"2022-01-12T11:17:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T11:17:35","slug":"products-of-the-hive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dbka.org.uk\/?page_id=135","title":{"rendered":"About Swarms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why do Honeybees Swarm?<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_156\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dbka.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Treeswarm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-156 \" title=\"Treeswarm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dbka.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Treeswarm-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"A Swarm Settled on a Tree Branch\" width=\"220\" height=\"167\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Swarm Settled on a Tree Branch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The queen is the only bee capable of producing eggs. For the honeybee to reproduce its species it is necessary for new queens to be produced to start a new colony.<\/p>\n<p>Normally a queen produces a pheromone called queen substance which is passed round the workers and prevents them producing a new queen. However, if the queen becomes old or dies, or if the colony becomes very populous, workers receive too little queen substance.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, they will then start to rear new queens. This often happens in late April, May or June. Once a new queen has been reared, the old queen leaves the hive with a proportion of the colony. This is a swarm.<\/p>\n<p>The swarm often clusters on a branch. Scout bees fly out to seek a new home in a hollow tree. Then the swarm will then move to the new home.<\/p>\n<h2>What to do if you see a swarm?<\/h2>\n<p>See our <a title=\"Swarms\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dbka.org.uk\/?page_id=90\">Swarms <\/a>page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do Honeybees Swarm? The queen is the only bee capable of producing eggs. For the honeybee to reproduce its &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1117,"parent":106,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-135","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dbka.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dbka.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dbka.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dbka.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dbka.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.dbka.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1118,"href":"https:\/\/www.dbka.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/135\/revisions\/1118"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dbka.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dbka.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dbka.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}