I have observed this behavior twice, only in spring; I believe in both cases these were spring supercedure queens.??I hived one swarm that lit on the original hive and only?later realized the old hive had no queen or queen cells when it took about 4 weeks for?me to see lots of brood in cells again.??Did you find the new queen in the hive?

Jerry Wallace

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