Oops!!! Apologies to your or Stan
you can see that he had them stinging his hands fairish.
It's not nice when a colony is like this, I've had one this season on double brood it took me three attempts to find the Queen and then a further 6 weeks to settle down after dispatching the Queen..
This was one of the feral colonys I collected from thrift common can ypu remember me putting photos up on here.?
They were fine when I moved them but went rouge afterwards, it was ashame because the Queen was lovely and dark.
They have a darkish queen now one they raised them selves.
And have produced two good supers plus the two I took of after I moved them.
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