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In a message dated 99-06-23 11:46:08 EDT, you write:
<< I stacked the nucs on the
original stand, since I operate my hives with multiple openings in all brood
chambers anyway, and bees continued to go in and out into all the nucs.
However, after two weeks when I examined the nucs, every one of them had
torn down
the swarm cells and were busily storing nectar in all available cells. I
decided
to reunite the "nucs" and restore the original colony. I was sort of
surprised
that they didn't raise a single queen from all those swarm cells. >>
Young queens are a lot dumber than workers about drifting, and drifting,
for a young queen, can be fatal. We always spread out our queen nucs, and try
to leave lots of landmarks to help them locate their own.
Also, was there a spell of bad weather, just about the time they were to
mate? We had a week of cold rain in late spring, and I lost almost every nuc
that would have been mating during that time.
Dave Green SC USA
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