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A strange thing happened today when trying to introduce a mated queen I will try and explain the best I can. I have a colony that turned into a drone layer so I killed the drone layer and introduced a mated queen in a cage. this queen was killed, with emergency cells started. therefore I thought I would give it another go and destroyed cells and waited a week. Now with a mated queen in a cage I am about to put this queen in into a introduction Cage that presses into the comb but she takes flight. I stand back and a queen lands on the frames unmarked, the introduced queen had disc glued on . I therefore presume the disc fell off with the queen taking flight, I catch here cage her and place between frames.
Then I notice a ball of bees on alighting board it's the marked queen she's caged and used elsewhere. . My conclusion is they superseded the drone layer and she was out on a mating flight.
Then I notice a ball of bees on alighting board it's the marked queen she's caged and used elsewhere. . My conclusion is they superseded the drone layer and she was out on a mating flight.
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