Do workers refuse the queen's solicitation prior to swarming or does 
she perhaps solicit less? I have often noticed deterioration in temper 
in a colony thinking of swarming, weeks before q cells are seen. 
Perhaps it is a pheromone linked phenomenon. Chris

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