Elizabeth Vogt wrote: >The bees, by the > thousands, began walking along the ground in front of the hive. They go > back in in the evening. I'm guessing it is some kind of odd swarming > behavior. I think they are lokking for the queen. They seen to bee hopeless queenless no eggs to make a new queen so the workers will be start to lay eggs AT THAT TIME IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO ATTACH A NEW QUEEN!!! So look out, be carefull!! Drop the new queen in a cage with many sucker the bees must have several days to be usefull to her (or visa versa) ggood luck jan ------------------------------------------------- home of the drone frame method. de darreraat methode ------------------------------------------------- http://www.xs4all.nl/~jtemp/index3.html Jan Tempelman / Ineke Drabbe | mailto:[log in to unmask] Sterremos 16 3069 AS Rotterdam, The Netherlands Tel/Fax (SOMETIMES) XX 31 (0)10-4569412 -------------------------------------------------