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Now Hiring: New Queen For Old Hive.

Strange subject line, eh?

My oldest hive seems to have lost its queen over the last month or two.  The brood boxes are full of honey and pollen.. and LOTS of drones… but not a single egg, larvae, or capped brood in 2 deeps and 2 supers.

My latest captured swarm has filled out EVERY available newly waxed cell with eggs – so this evening, I took one of the new frames of eggs, and placed into the lower brood box of my original hive.  I knocked down the bottom 1/3 of 7 or 8 of the cells in order to persuade them to create a new queen from one of the freshly laid eggs.  I’m REALLY liking the last captured swarm.

 

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