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Hi Sutty, quite possibly bcuz awhile back, I did an inspection. All my bees, had suddenly, unexpectantly, increased. Unusual for our time of year. I don't remember what I did back then. Yrs ago, I moved frames around in an attempt to thwart their swarming, which they didn't do. So maybe...

Why? Anytime I've dealt with swarming, the remaining colony was always found to have capped or soon to be capped, swarm cells or SS cells. This time, I only found cups with 1 day old eggs in both deeps. Backstory Yesterday, I was headed out to split, add another box or put on supers, a...

Pardon my ignorance, what is banking them please

Okay. Are you saying put the queen cages in the top box of a established hive? I thought the colony's bees would kill them? I need to research the best way to make a mating nuk. How long will they be fertile?

What is the best method for keeping newly caged Virgin Queens alive, in preparation for mating? What is the fastest methods for keeping them alive to get mated? Backstory: I just caught and individually caged, 7 virgin queens from a colony, just as they were hatching. I found all of the opened...