While I had the hive opened, to find the hatched queens, one flew on to my hand - very strange for a queen to be out of the hive! Suddenly she flew away and craziness ensued; it was like someone turned on a box fan in the hive.
Maybe 3 minutes after this whirlwind, I heard some commotion above me. My parents' house have many tall maple trees, and the swarm relocated about 30 feet in the air.
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| The newest "hive" with some original frames and some of the collected swarm. We relocated the top bars from the tub into a quickly assembled box. The behavior below is a way for their scent to be fanned into the air. Think of it as a scent magnet. |
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