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Re: Does inclement weather affect afterswarms?
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>>Or perhaps there was no queen in the swarm to begin with, and the 
bees returned to their colony?

I've heard of this possibility but have never experienced it myself.  How often to you folks find swarms without queens?  And what tells the swarming bees without a queen to gather in a particular spot?

Waldemar

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