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Title: Swarm queen or virgin?
Post by: yes2matt on May 10, 2020, 02:08:07 PM

https://youtu.be/Ns96E7wHguA

I don't normally cut swarm cells but this time I did, I cut out ten. Some were very ripe.

I heard this queen before I saw her. I thought she was piping from inside a cell but couldn't find another cell.

So what I think this is : the first virgin calling to the others so she can come eliminate them? Or perhaps the queen mother rallying the troops -- though I'm pretty sure this is not the queen mother, she was a big bronze beauty.

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Title: Re: Swarm queen or virgin?
Post by: TheHoneyPump on May 10, 2020, 04:55:30 PM

Virgin, definitely.

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