Last week I ordered 2 Russian/Carnolian cross queens from Honey Bee Genetics as I had 2 swarm hives with no queen activity. Yesterday I completed another search and I did find a queen in my Queen castle and lots of tightly packed brood cells. No activity at all in the other 2 suspect hives so that's where the queens went. I am not in love with the idea of mass produced queens and think that this is another reason we have CCD, but there were no local queens available. The only 2 other hives which up and left years past were both with queens from queen factories. Someone should study this.
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