>But what did I see, if not another big nice queen walking around
>in the same hive! And what's more, she was also marked and
>clipped! That was the missing queen from the first hive. But how
>had she got there? Hardly by flying with only one wing....
>By walking 4 meters in the grass? And why did she leave her
>hive? How come she was welcome in the other hive that
>already got a good laying queen?

Hi all,

I just had a possible idea. Maybe the small hive was going to swarm and
when they left the hive, the Queen couldn't fly so eventually she made
her way into the other hive. That might explain how she got into the hive
but, I don't know how the queens could get along together.

If this is correct maybe the small hive did have some queen cells but
somehow the queen died.


Justin Knight
Age 14
Hong Kong



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