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I Have found the queens from strong hives too. Laying queen use to bee in brood box, even if the hives has 8 boxes. And I do not use excluder.

To find a queen is very good skill. If you use smoke when seaching, finding is difficult.

Clip the queen's wing. When you see the queen cells, do a padgen Everything works, if you will

Clip the wing. No change to fly away.

No bee piped = nothing

I do not know what has happened a month ago. But when the queen is piping, probaply the primary swarm has gone a week ago.

If the queen is free and it is piping, propably he swarm will start next day.

Why you need to look eggs and the queen? More I look the the total space to brood, pollen, honey and nectar. But these do not indiace swarming so, that I must do an artificial swarm.

When you are going to shake bees, wait 15 minutes that outside the hive bees become nervous. They take themselves full of honey. Bees will drop from the comb like apples.

Quickest emergengy cell will emerge in 10 days.

A swarm can leave hive when ever, if the hive is full of honey. The queen may lay eggs into cups and swarm may leave. But it helps when you clip the queen's wing. The swarm will come back in 20 minutes. WHY 7 DAYS I have lived 55 years in the Capital City of Helsinki and I have tavelled every...

What about varroa

You saw a queen cell a month ago in 9th of May. That case is over.

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Tupla

Once I caught an unwanted color queen in a swarm. I squeezed it and the swarm had 3 other queens. When the swarm lost the odor of the black queen, it returned to the home hive.

If the swarm is queenless, it returns home in 20 minutes. If clipped queen is on the ground, the swarm forgets such queen. It does not return to queen. Wingless queen is useless to the colony. The queen follows the swarm.

My gueen are never off lay during acyive season. How do I find such superior eggs. First point is the time of the year when you can start queen rearing in Spring. Is it possible that the queen starts just then its laying? Of course not. First the colony must rear new bees because winter bees...

You are making the job too difficult

Draft such larva, which you are able to move. What I have used to move they have been 24 hours old. I have used a sharp stick made from a tree branch. I have used them 55 years. I make a new every time.