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thorn

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It varies.
I found queens in two of my hives this morning and marked them both. The first I let back onto a frame in the brood box, and all was well.
The second was from a hive I decided to snelgrove, there being a couple of charged queen cells in the brood box. I prepared a second brood box with new foundation, putting the frame on which I'd found her in the old box into the centre. As soon as I released he she was attacked.
Can a mark on the back make that much difference? Might it be the smell of the still wet marking ink?
 
Can a mark on the back make that much difference?
sometimes can - once I mark I ease off the COT so that she can move around and the paint dry - gives the bees a moment to realise it's the same queen as well.
 
sometimes can - once I mark I ease off the COT so that she can move around and the paint dry - gives the bees a moment to realise it's the same queen as well.

:yeahthat:
 
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