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When they swarm usually you'll see what appears as smoke by your hive from a short distance.As you get closer the bees are flying what I describe in the form of a perfect orb,flying inside the orb in every which direction.Sometimes they just pour out and go.I see the orb more often than them just bailing out.Never let anyone cut out your queen cells,you shouldn't had to order another queen they were already taking care of that for you!No queen no queencells=queenless.No larvae the right age to produce more queens will get them in trouble.Shouldn't of done a combine you missed an opportunity for making easy increase in your hive count.Whoever had you cut out the queencells should stay out of your apiary until they know better.Cutting out queencells won't stop them from swarming!Might have missed a queencell that hatched out.It's hard to find a fresh hatched virgin.I'm not there looking at what you're seeing could be swarming,could be afterswarm(In a bees mind)could be orientation but I've not witnessed an over abundance of activity as you describe during orientation.Not saying it doesn't happen just saying I've not experienced it.

 

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Pull the pseudo out.You don't need it with a queen in there.Might confuse them thinking there's more than one queen.Hard to tell age but she doesn't look frayed.She and you look good to go!Be patient if she's not mated it'll take a few days.Leave her alone after you take the pseudo out for 7 days and check for eggs,if no eggs wait 7 more and check again.You should be seeing eggs by then.If you have another hive pull a frame of emerging bees or two and a frame of honey and nuc the queen you have coming Tuesday.If you don't have the honey than start feeding until you put them in another hive.Won't take the nuke long to build up at all.Presto change where in the hell did all the bees come from!Good luck you're going to do good.It's not the answer to a question it's being able to come up with the question that seperates thinkers and doers from thoughs Who don't and won't.

 

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Emerging brood with adhering nurse bees works very nicely.Foragers will just go back to the parent hive for the most part.With emerging brood and nurse bees won't be but real shortly that you have wortkers,nurse bees, and a place for the queen to lay.With emerging brood she can start laying after cells have been polished.You'll be very pleased with yourself and it gives an extra boost to confidence.Let the nuc set for an hour once you've made it up,then put your new queen in.Like installing packages time everything to be ready for the queen to be put in an hour or so before it gets dark out.I learned when I was young ,if a hive has a lot of queen cells going on don,t mess with them at night!Man did they eat my butt up!Lesson learned!:banana:

 

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You can keep her in the cage for a few days without installing.Keep her in a dark ventilated area,no direct sunlight .Queens like darkness drones like the light.Keep her at room temp around 70 degrees is good,give her a drop of water every day,dip your clean finger in a glass of water and touch the drop of water carefully to the screen,dont touch the screen with your finger.An eye dropper will work.but practice first so as to learn how to dispense only one drop.Important only one drop a day!That will buy you time you may need to have that frame of brood you need.When I mean ventilated I don't men an electric fan a room that isn't musty will work.My little brother is an air assault instructor at Fort Knox and lives in Louis ville.I'll be up that way her in a bit maybe we can get together for some informative hands on beekeeping.I'm older than dirt but very open minded I don't believe a person learn as much by giving them a hard time but much more when they have a good time.I've learn more from people that know less than me than I've learned from those who know more.I don't know why it's always been that way for me.

 

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Most certainly will.Nothing like hand s on experience!Books and whatever can be read can help you get familiar with terminology,what might to exspect,to get familiar with diffent techniques and so on.There is a lot of trial and error involved.Thinking about what you're,studying, asking questions can help reduce the error factor.All beekeepers have made their mistakes!Learn from mistakes and look at them as a positive experience.Negativity won't get you any where in life beekeeper or not!Will be looking forward to making your acquaintance in the very near future:thumbsup: