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  • From: Scotty Hinson <scotty_hinson AT att.net>
  • To: ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [ocba] Swarm ??
  • Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:49:10 -0700 (PDT)

Last Friday I went into my hive for a check - thinking I needed to look for queen cells. This hive is very active and getting busier each day.
 
About 10 days before that I had added a super just in case it got too crowded. On Friday I found at least 3 queen cells and destroyed them. I did not go all the way through the hive as it was getting late. 
 
Then on Sunday I decided  I needed to go all the way through hive to make sure the queen was there and no swarm had occurred. It was about 3pm , cloudy, and had been drizzling rain most of the morning.
 
As I went through the hive I saw LOTS of drone brood in the supers and brood box as well as LOTS of drones throughout the hive. There were a couple of frames in the brood box full of capped brood. Nowhere did I see eggs or the queen. The  further I went the more agitated they got and I finished rather quickly.
 
SO. . .   my thought now is the hive may have swarmed and destroying the queen cells was a bad thing. What should I do next ? Go through it one more time or see if a new queen comes out of another queen cell or just re queen .???
 
Any ideas will be appreciated .
 
Scott Hinson



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