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Mmmmmm good point! We obviously need to do another inspection but are reluctant to do so given all the upheaval they have had these past couple of days. Any suggestions as to how long we should leave them to settle down before we go back in? And thanks to everyone fortheir help and insight to date

no we left well alone there, we shook bees off the other frames into the nuc

The clipped queen is back in the original hive, we put the frame with the queen cells, brood and food and shook bees in as well and we hecked today and no queen in the nuc and we are as confused but without the carlsburg :)

I hope someone may be able to give me some advice. We had an unexpected swarm yesterday. Fortunately our queen was clipped so we did not lose half the colony and we recovered it. Our queen has been a very prolific one and when we went into the hive yesterday found a few queen cells which we...