Glennster, I will concede that this is an unusually small bee colony, due in part, I suppose, to the fact that there cannot be much room in this tree. However, it has been active all summer and the bees are now working the sasanquas and other flowers blooming this time of year (even some azaleas). But you're right--I have not seen bees clustered on the outside of the opening as I would have expected.
Many years ago my daughter discovered a swarm in a hedge just outside my kitchen door. I hastily threw together a wooden box with a crosspiece inside. I then went to the hedge with a hand pruner, carefully clipped the branch (fortunately the swarm was all on the one branch.) I laid the bees in the box and closed the lid, took it to the back of the yard and made some holes in the box. They stayed there for over a year, when a friend took them and placed them in a conventional hive. Maybe I'll be lucky and catch these bees intact when they swarm. (I once trailed a swarm for a quarter mile before they stopped at a hollow tree.)
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