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- From: Randall Austin <ra41717 AT gmail.com>
- To: David DiGiuseppe <david AT daviddg.com>
- Cc: ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [ocba] two swarms question
- Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 13:00:09 -0400
David,
After-swarms (a hive swarming again after it has already swarmed once) are not uncommon. They fall in the category of, "what ELSE can go wrong?"!!!
They are biologically interesting... clearly the workers must prevent the first new queen from killing her fellow queen-sisters in order to be able to swarm again so soon. So it must be a well-developed plan from the beginning to cast off multiple swarms? I've been meaning to read Tom Seeley's "Honey Bee Democracy" to see if it addresses any of these sorts of questions.
Randall
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 10:13 PM, David DiGiuseppe <david AT daviddg.com> wrote:
Hi all,My hive swarmed about 2 weeks ago. (Not to my surprise--I'd been too stinkin' busy to keep up with them.)The same hive swarmed again this morning. This one caught me by surprise.Sadly, like the last time, the swarm is on a branch about 50 feet high. (Anyone have a sky-hook?)My question--is it odd that the same hive would swarm twice in 2 weeks?----- ------ ----- -----David D
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[ocba] two swarms question,
David DiGiuseppe, 04/08/2012
- Re: [ocba] two swarms question, Jeff Bollinger, 04/09/2012
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Lewis Cauble, 04/09/2012
- Re: [ocba] two swarms question, Catherine Adamson, 04/09/2012
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