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Why an empty super? Do you want them to build off the crown board?

Nice handy swarm for somebody. Put a board down and they would probably walk in.

and although the Queen was there - her egg laying was hardly prolific.. That may be the reason for them making a new one.

What did I do in the apiary today? Drank tea, and watched the coming and going of the ladies.:) Such a nice day here, and they were out enjoying themselves, seemed a shame to disturb them, since I'd looked thro' the hives 6 days ago.

Do you hold your frames full of brood/honey horizontally?

Many variations can be employed... My particular favorite is to use a frame containing a couple of queencells, a frame of emerging brood, a frame with brood of all ages and other frames taken from storage... one with sealed stores and the other with foundation that has been partially drawn...

A fair number of ways of helping you find the queen can be found here. Split the hive into two, Leave it a hour, and all the flyers go back to the original site, that helps. Brush the bees into the bottom box, put the brood above with a QE inbetween, that separates them a bit as all the house...

This is where someone tells me they're lesser spotted hungarian robber bees Nah, That's the Often Spotted. :)

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Is it bad weather making them irritable?

Checked mine Saturday, they are just holding their own. No surplus at all.

What Jenkinsbrynmair said is usually the best first move.

Good to hear all is well. Just in time to catch a swarm, you lucky devil.:)

Stings in different parts affect me very differently. Hands, almost no effect, ear, ouch. back of the neck, minor itching.

An inspection of my hives. Last time was a quick looksee a fortnight ago. Are we over the worse of this ruddy weather yet?

A sting on the ear is painful.

I'd say it was a swarm cell.

Excellent link Redwood

You don't always need to find the Queen.

Didn,t they make a film about this when somebody from the future came back to destroy all Humans after what they had done to the earth, chap called reeves was in it Not quite what you had in mind I suppose but. "You humans are like a cancer, that spreads and destroys everything it touches"...