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Honeybees Are Like Buyers On A New Mason Condo!
When you're an amateur beekeeper, sometimes your daily schedule gets a bit unplanned.
Last weekend we'd done the bulk of our Spring season work with our hives, and in the process found some soon to be queen bees.  Their cells on a formed frame are much larger than other bees, more similar to a small peanut.
So we "beenapped" some worker bees and two frames with queen bee peanut cells and moved them to a new hive we wanted to establish.  Once the queen bee hatches, she just has a few days to leave the hive, get mated and return to the hive to get about her queen bee business.  She's got eggs to lay to grow the colony, and there's a rule, one queen per colony.
So today we notice extra activity around the new hive.  On the side of the hive there's a cluster of bees.  And then we notice another cluster on a sapling just behind our row of hives.  Our assumption?  Multiple queens hatched at the same time, and each has claimed a portion of the bees in the hive as their "court".  So on the outside of the hive is most likely one queen and her attendants, the bunch ... more

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