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Arrrrg ! I was so discouraged when I visited my hives yesterday. Half my queens have swarmed; new virgin queens have lost their way or are not laying eggs yet. Which translate into more than half my hives are in bad shape. Swarming is a natural proccess. It just happenned a bit too soon for me, I wasn’t ready!!!
I was suppose to separate my hives last week but a professional beekeeper told me it was best to have queens under hand before separating because things don't always go well the natural way. And boy was he right! None of my naturally born virgin queens seem to have made it. All I hope is that my hatching queens, the ones I’ve made, will be ready in time (beginning of next week). Hopefully I'll be able to save a few colonies.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could train bees like dogs? 
I didn’t realize you kept bees! I hope you are able to resolve the issues and have thriving colonies!
Sorry to hear this, hopefully the hatching queens will be abundant and continue with their duties.
hope things for you have settled, reminds me of my younger days. my dad use to have 3 or 4 beehives in the back of our house. it was enough for our family. then one day we had problems with the queen and about 6 months later my dad just let our honey harvesting go.
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