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> >Conglomerate swarms?


Sure, not that uncommon with my Italian stocks.  I watched fours swarms
combine a couple of years ago, and pulled out seven virgin queens, and
divided up the swarm to start seven nucs.

Several years ago, I found a swarm in one of my yards that was nearly the
size of my wife, broke a 1" almond trunk, and contained at least 18 queens,
which I recovered when I shook some of the bees through an excluder.
-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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