After a long, seemingly never-ending winter in these parts we had a record
breaking hot day yesterdays: 86dF!  Forecast for tomorrow, sleet and
freezing rain :-(  But that's a different story.

Anyway, I carped the diem and was checking hives and over-wintered nucs.  I
opened a 5-frame nucs, amazed that is was still alive, and to my surprise,
the marked queen came to the top of the frames and promptly flew off!  In
all my years I've never seen such a thing.  I've seen queens escape from a
queen cage and fly away, but I've never seen a laying queen just up and fly
away from her colony.  After a few expletives, I pulled a few frames and saw
freshly laid eggs, so I know the queen was laying.

Has anyone else ever seen such a thing?  Might anyone offer an explanation
or SWAG?

Aaron Morris - I think, therefore I bee!

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