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We are backyard beekeepeers. This season we started with one hive, it swarmed (regardless of our mitigation measures), which is fine as we wanted 2 hives and caught that swarm. 12 days later we had what appeared to be two swarms into the same tree. It doesn't appear that the original hive has a queen, plus very little brood and no eggs. So here is my question: if we check the original hive and determine there is still no queen. Can we just take one of the two new swarms and combine it with that hive, instead of buying a new queen?
Thanx!
Thanx!