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I recently split a colony 3 ways, giving 4 frames each to 2 nucs and 8 frames to the 3rd. After a week, I went into the nuc which housed the original queen. Everything looked good. Found her and plenty of bees and eggs, but under the last 2 frames I noticed a ball of bees in attack mode on SBB. The ball was the size of a golf ball. I removed it and started prying bees away with my hive tool. A queen emerged and flew away. I was kinda surprised to see this queen and don't know what to think of it. I made sure the first queen I found was still present and I closed it up. Any thoughts?