My hive swarmed today. I happened to walk out to the yard and saw the air thick with bees. The swarm settled under the hive stand of main hive. I was able to capture the swarm (with the queen) and put them in a hive body with foundation right next to the original hive. The queen appears to be healthy. The strange thing is that about 30 minutes later the worker bees abandoned the queen. Now I have a queen and no swarm! Not knowing exactly what to do, I decided to place the queen above the original hive with a queen excluder? Im still not sure if this was the right thing to do. Please help!
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