Dear beekeepers,
This is my second year of beekeeping, last year we started out with ten hives and increased this year to twenty. I live on an eighty acre property with a spring fed pond, wooded area, large garden, apple orchard, and years worth of added pollen friendly plants. All of the hives seem healthy with little Varroa mites at this point, but none are full blown issues. As far as i can the tell the bees seem very healthy. Got this batch of Italian honey bees from Georgia. The thing is most of our hives have swarmed this year and its not for lack of space. The second deeps are not even close to being full, i am wondering if these bees could be Africanized, or if they have over saturated the area and are needing to spread out. And i wouldn't mind the swarming except for the fact that we don't have enough equipment to capture any more. Other beekeepers in the area sure don't mind, but i would rather have a healthy operation set up before giving away hundreds of dollars worth of bees.
Would love some extra input of this situation, many thanks.