Swarms are the pleasure or pain of being a beekeeper.
When you first start off with little money, you spend more time and energy chasing all these 'free' swarms to build your hive numbers up.
A few yrs later, you find some hives starting to swarm, so you go great and use these 'free' swarm cells to split others.
A few yrs later, you only collect swarms if they causing a nuisance to others.
A few yrs later, you start to learn a bit about swams and may only collect them to squeeze the queen and use the bees for a weak hive.
A few yrs later, you don't even go collect them and tell the landowner to contact the local hobbyist club.
A few yrs later, you are pissed off from other bkprs swarms as they may reinfect your hives, as you got your swarming under control.
Many yrs later, all your bees sold, a thought pops into your head, maybe I could catch a swarm to have a 'free' hive in the backyard.
