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The bigger the colony, the better it goes over winter and the better is the spring build up. You have time left and the colony will grow bigger this summer. Take care of mites.

You have much summer and autumn left, and bees will use pollen to rear winter brood. How much they use, I do not know, how much you hives have pollen Nucs need lots of pollen to get good winter bees. Nucs are not good to forage pollen. Winter vees will not be gpod if they do not get enough pollen

Do not disturb their nest.

You drop them together and that it is.

I have kept 60 years beehives and never used excluders. Bees have instict to keep brood area togethes as round ball. The queen does not run here and there dropping eggs every where The the bees have instinct to situate things in order, from top to bottom: TOP - Capped honey - not ready honey...

Who pays the hotel?

If I had, I would ask help, how to became rich. And if it could be true I would no be here. And something to wish in my life, I want to see that mating swarm in the bush bransh

Nuclei become too strong and they swarm... Nothing to do with queen mating...

Queen mates at afternoon. And several times a day.

No, I do not have soul.

When I studied biology in the University, there was no such subject like macig of animals and macig of plants. How se macig. Nowadays macig is every where. Trees are talking to each other and they have internet in their roots. You can hug trees and stones and you get power from them.

It is same to me how they mate. If I lived 100 miles away, bees handled they job without me.

It depends what they are doing. I bet that it is afternoon cleansing flight after couple of rainy days.

During 60 years I have never seen a mating swarm. The queen makes several mating flights during during a day I have asked from.experienced queen breeders about mating swarms and they have have not seen either.

What is oil sugar patty?

They look like some animal has eaten them.

Pollen storage.

If there were brood, a new queen did not have cell to lay.

The queen did no came with the swarm. Or it is violated. Bees changed their mind because they did not have a queen. What ever the reason. That is the way when the hive has a clipped queen.

Artificial insemination begun to be more common after II World War. It 80 years ago.