When my bees started having swarm cells I split them in to nucs. I also
took some of the frames with queen cells and put them in nucs
 since there where more cells than they needed. I have done this in the
past. This past two nucs have swarmed out of the nuc box as soon as the
queen can fly. The queen is not taking a maiden flight. I checked the
nucsJune 2 and the cells where still intact. On June 4 I had a swarm
from a
nuc so there must of been a new queen in there when I looked at the cells,
though there was no empty cell the bees must of torn it down fast.
Yesterday I had another swarm from the same group of nucs with the same
situation. I caught the June 4 swarm it was small and hived them I
inspected them yesterday I saw the queen there is no brood. The box they
came out of has a patch of brood the size of my palm, about 100 bees and a
queen cell.
I
t has rained almost every two days for two days so flying time is down, the
schedule seems to be the queen emerges, hardens up during the rainy days
and them they swarm with her on the first sunny day.
They swarmed with the virgin queen which didn't make since to me they had
plenty of room to let her lay in the
nuc
box.
The nucs and came from the same hive so I would say they are a swarmy bunch.

Bees seem to do as they please no matter what I think or do.

Karen T-K

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