>
> I suspect you missed the queen. I had a similar
> experience last week, but I
> successfully hived them on the second try.
But it was so easy! I brushed the whole cluster into
the box in 3 swipes, leaving only the airborne ones.
Is it possible the queen took flight as I was dumping
them in? And why, then, did the bees wait a few
minutes to come out of the nuc box, after acting so
much like the queen was inside?
Eugene
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