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Todd,

Since this queen may be SMR it would be worth while to save her.

I suggest taking the queen and a couple frames of emerging brood and
putting them back in the nuc.  Then let the hive go on with what it
seems bent on doing - raising a new queen.  When things settle down
again you can replace the new queen by removing her and combining the
nuc with the newly queenless hive.

I have not experienced the sort of situation you have, but I suppose the
temperament could be related to the frustrated  swarming urge and thus
temporary.

Tom Elliott
Chugiak, Alaska

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