I had to smile when George Imirie suggested that a virgin queen might
be present. Like I didn't know a virgin queen can be very hard to
spot. Like the swarm wasn't small and well distributed, making it
easy to search for a queen. Like I didn't check several times over
several days. I went ahead anyway and put the queenless swarm above
newspaper above my hive. After a couple of days, I removed the
newspaper and replaced it with a triangle escape board. The next
time I went through the hive I removed the inner cover to shake those
bees which had not exited and there was a patch of brood, some
uncapped, some capped worker brood. I can only hope that not knowing
everything can't be equated to not knowing anything. Dan
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