Let me tell you a story about a beek who had read a book about keeping bees. His first year he noticed that there were open cells in the capped brood, and the book said spotty brood was a sign of queen failure. He was also concerned because the queenwhich came with his package had a white mark, and it was 2008. The mark should have been red according to the book. The population seemed strong, and he had harvested 20 pounds of honey this first year. It was late July, which was a perfect time to let them requeen themselves, so he picked that spotty queen up and dropped her to the ground and stepped on her. Let them make a new one! A couple of days later he looked and found emergency queen cells surrounding the brood nest on almost every brood frame.Good! The first oneout will go around and kill all the rest and take over the hive. Everything was going according to the book.
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