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Date: | Sat, 27 Jul 1996 03:14:33 +0000 |
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At 02:14 PM 7/26/96 +0000, you wrote:
>In the area I live, northeast Kansas, swarming has been unusually bad
>for everyone, I guess because it was an unusually wet spring. The
>swarms were all very late for this area, all after June 1. Five of my six
>hives swarmed, one in mid July.
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>All of my hives that swarmed ended up queenless. I have heard many
>other beekeepers in the area have had the same problem. What causes
>queenlessness after a swarm. My hives that swarmed all had empty
>queen cells in them. Where did the queens go?
>
> -Steve Phillips-
> -Perry, KS-
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Hi Steve
Unfortunately I know what causes most of my lost virgin queens. They are
called Mockingbird and Cardinal. They sit on the ground in front of the
hives and catch bees. Ordinarily I don't mind but it would seem that they
catch just about every queen that flies. In that yard, I have only gotten 1
good queen and 1 runt queen mated this year. The runt was a mistake of
course. If it weren't illegal, I think I would like to shoot a few and
maybe discourage the rest.
Frank Humphrey
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