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2nd year of beekeeping and overwintered two hives. Today was our first fully inspection of the hives. Hive 1 completely fine. Lovely. Hive 2 was a nightmare. This hive was a captured swarm from hive 1. With a locally mated / natural queen... We opened the hive, and they were angry from the...

Hi, I have a hive (my first) which swarmed on 21st June. I captured it and this is now in a spare hive - looking great. The original hive had capped Queen cells, which i didn't thin out enough and I had a cast swarm this Friday. Inspected Friday evening and I saw multiple hatched Queen cells...