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Emergency queens are started from larvae. You can see it yourself. Very easy. When laying queens were inspected, all queens originated from 3 days old larva When the first queen emerges, it kills other pupae. What is common to emergency cells, it is that emerged cells do not have spare royal...

It is not rare, that a new queen vanishes on its mating flights. Queen development in swarmed colony's shedule is such, that when last workers have emerged, then a new queen starts to lay. It about 20 days = 3 weeks.

They really do. I use to give 3 crystallized frames honey and foundations. Bees eate and clean those 3 frames for laying. After a week I have 3 frames young brood in the hive and fully drawn combs +++++++ But if there is a good flow for example from raspberry there is no idea to feed the...

I put 3 crystallized frames to the AS. Or I give a feeding box and 5 kg sugar as 30% syrup.

When you make an AS on foundations, bees start to draw very quickly them, because they need combs. The queen starts to lay on third day im the AS. Not before. Your first thing was to cut swarming fever and you do not need to think, what happens to yield. As you saw, the swarms flew away...

If you put foundations + one box of full drawn super box, bees do not need to draw foundations. AS has lost already half of its workers for their age.

I bet that you used drawn combs. If you use foundations and laying queen on them, it stops swarmimg fever. Another question is the brood hive. It still has swarming fever.

Put more boxes.

I wonder, why mating swarm is not a routine habit in queen mating. Only blessed beekeepers can see it.

Swarms I have seen hunreds

How many times you have seen such mating clustering in your life? I saw from internet, that I have debated about this thing in this forum 10 years ago. Let it be so.

I have never seen clustered mating flight. I have reared 55 years queen and mated them. I know that queens make several mating flights in a day and during 1-3 days . I have looked into mating nucs many times and there is no queen there. But no clusters wating her to return. The queen can...

Sounds like daily cleansing flight, when bees come out to empty their gut.

Swarm is gone. Nothing can be done.

Different viruses make different visual symptons. That is how you notice them.

SECOND WAY If/ when you do artificial swarm and you have a laying queen, put into the swarm hive one brood frame, 3 crystallized honey frames and the rest foundations . After a week honey frames are cleaned and filled with larvae. And now you have saved 5 frames and most honey too.

Of course not, if it is hive's own reared queen. Me either.

The basic in that way is, that when bees have capped their own queen cells, they accept quite well a new queen. Push in cage is good tool to make sure, that they do not start to ball the queen.

It sounds that your queens are not good layers.

That spore formation was new to me.