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When swarming takes place what is the time line of the old and new queen?
Is the new queen hatched before swarming?
If so...does she mate before or after the swarm?
What happens when a swarm decides to cancel and go back to the old hive for a while? Two queens/one hive?
I have a feral hive in a wooden box with no frames. Quite a tangled mess in there,but they are happy.
I use them as a seed colony and catch the swarms.
This year I caught the swarm to a hive box. Ten minutes later they were back in the mother hive.( My fault,I had two swarms happening at the same time. I didn't complete this one before I went to the other one)
Since then the mother hive entrance activity has slowed down.
It is impossible to open the box without destroying things. What little I can see is lots of bees inside.
Did the returning old queen screw things for the new queen?
Is the new queen hatched before swarming?
If so...does she mate before or after the swarm?
What happens when a swarm decides to cancel and go back to the old hive for a while? Two queens/one hive?
I have a feral hive in a wooden box with no frames. Quite a tangled mess in there,but they are happy.
I use them as a seed colony and catch the swarms.
This year I caught the swarm to a hive box. Ten minutes later they were back in the mother hive.( My fault,I had two swarms happening at the same time. I didn't complete this one before I went to the other one)
Since then the mother hive entrance activity has slowed down.
It is impossible to open the box without destroying things. What little I can see is lots of bees inside.
Did the returning old queen screw things for the new queen?