Got lucky

[doak]

"BUT" Got tore up.  5 stings on one hand. Went into the queenless hive and found no eggs, brood, queen, Nothing. Went into the hive right next door, had to remove 3 supers then the excluder. The lucky part, the first frame I pulled was full of brood from eggs to capped. So I swaps it with the middle one in the queenless hive. The Queenless hive wasn't bad, not a single sting.
Although the colony I took the brood froom was fired up, if the other colony makes enough cells, I may just use some of them to start some nuc's.
If it is true, the older the Queen the meaner the bees, well I think this is her 4th yr. Still has a good pattern and I pulled another full super from it. That makes 3. I'll keep y'all posted on this one.
doak

[Michael Bush]

>If it is true, the older the Queen the meaner the bees

Maybe, kind of sort of.  Seems like they can get testy when a queen is failing and an older queen is more likely to fail.  Not that young queens don't fail, especially commercial ones in recent years.