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Tree Trapout – the queen emerges

The trapout that started on March 29 can officially be called a success!  I received a call yesterday from the homeowner – letting me know that the queen has emerged, and was sitting on the screened-over entrance with maybe 100-200 bees.   That was exactly what I was hoping to hear, since the standard procedure for a queen who is not being properly tended to is to abscond with the remaining 1-2 measuring cups’ worth of volume of remaining bees.

I captured the queen and about 2 dozen of her attendants – and will be re-introducing her to her original colony at the new bee-yard this weekend.

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