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Queen Bee Blues

This year seems to be particularly difficult for queen health. To keep a hive from swarming, I split the hive and purchased a new queen for the new colony. A week later I checked the hive for evidence of eggs. There were none. After checking through the hive, I found no queen. I checked the hive the split came from and there was no queen there either! I called beekeepers.com and ordered two new…