Mesh floors: Do bees seem to attract other bees

[masterBK]

Went to the apiary today and found large prime swarms under the mesh floors of two of my hives. These swarms had not come from the colonies in those hives as I went through both of them and found both queens (and no queen cells). There are 19 colonies in that apiary and was pleasantly surprised to find none of them had any queen cells apart from one which had a single supersedure cell (plus I also saw the queen in that colony). So these must be incoming swarms. I have had one or two swarms come in and go under mesh floors every year since I went over to mesh floors five years ago. It seems colonies with mesh floors seem to act like bait hives. Has anyone else had this happen?

 

[Poly Hive]

Never: and I have possibly the longest experience here.

Handy though.

PH

 

[BobsBees]

No nothing to do with OMF.
But the Apiary does attract Swarms from the surrounding area, even if its just a stopping off point before moving on.
This my personal observations from two out Apiaries.
Bob.

 

[susbees]

No but I've had a caste swarm take up residence and build comb under the roof of a four foot tbh.

 

[drstitson]

"take up residence and build comb under the roof of a four foot tbh"

isn't that how TBHs are meant to work (roughly)?

 

[The Cumbrian]

"take up residence and build comb under the roof of a four foot tbh"

isn't that how TBHs are meant to work (roughly)?

I think the point is they were under the roof rather than under the bars.

 

[susbees]

I think the point is they were under the roof rather than under the bars.

Thanks The Cumbrian. Under the roof on top of the quilt (of the bee variety) and top bars. Better, R ?