>How often to you folks find swarms without queens?

Queenless swarms are common (queen can't fly, or is on the ground in front
of the colony);  the bees soon return.  If you hive them, they will also
return to the parent colony (if you haven't moved them away, of course).

If you hold queens in a queen bank colony, the bees may swarm day after day,
and then return when they realize that all the queens were left behind.

Randy Oliver

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