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Not informative, but I find it to be quite beautiful! Hope you enjoy! https://youtu.be/ylyCCBedpvc

Hey all, I have a question about queens. I did a couple of splits on the 17th, put the old queen in a nuc. Waited till the colony created some queen cells and did three 5 frame splits. I checked today and all the splits have queens. One looks like I'm used to, long and fat. The others are not...

I am getting ready to make a split using frames from two relatively strong hives using a purchased queen, most likely a Carniolan hybrid. What I have been thinking about is to use a mated or virgin queen? I can think of pluses and minuses for both and would like to hear your thoughts, here...