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<blockquote data-quote="2busy" data-source="post: 3763182" data-attributes="member: 12213"><p>Finally took the time to inspect my bee hives. One was pretty strong coming out of winter . I decided it needed a simulated swarm, so I found the queen and put here and 4 frames of brood and nurse bees in a separate hive body. This fools the original hive into thinking the hive swarmed with the queen . They will create some queen cells to make a new queen. Hopefully she will emerge and have a successful mating flight and return to the hive and keep the hive going.</p><p>Most of the time it goes smoothly and they never miss a beat. Sometimes the queen doesn't make it back and you have to step in and make sure you don't wind up with a laying worker. Laying worker is just an unmated female bee that will only make male bees from her unfertilized eggs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="2busy, post: 3763182, member: 12213"] Finally took the time to inspect my bee hives. One was pretty strong coming out of winter . I decided it needed a simulated swarm, so I found the queen and put here and 4 frames of brood and nurse bees in a separate hive body. This fools the original hive into thinking the hive swarmed with the queen . They will create some queen cells to make a new queen. Hopefully she will emerge and have a successful mating flight and return to the hive and keep the hive going. Most of the time it goes smoothly and they never miss a beat. Sometimes the queen doesn't make it back and you have to step in and make sure you don't wind up with a laying worker. Laying worker is just an unmated female bee that will only make male bees from her unfertilized eggs. [/QUOTE]
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