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Okay so here's how it all went down...

I got called out to check up on a house that "has bees in the attic" last week. I got there and looked through the attic and didn't see a single bee. Walked around front and there was a small blob of bees on the outside of a little soffit space by the front door. So there were definitely bees, but given the small space and the amount on the outside I just expected that there would only be 5-6 thousand at most. Fast forward a week to the extraction today. I get there, get set up, get all suited up, and prepare to dig in. I drill a hole in it to make sure they are there, and they are definitely there. The bottom of the soffit is rotten so I just pull it off and reveal a MASSIVE blob of bees on a huge hive. The first bucket fills up super quickly and the bees just keep pouring out and replacing those that were sucked up. Two buckets later, I can see enough of the comb to start pulling some of it down. Three "frames" of comb in, the comb is over a square foot. (it was a slant soffit) I pulled down lots of pollen, lots of bee bread in the making, and loooooots of uncapped honey. It was almost all full and thick like honey, so it was definitely almost done. It tasted wonderful. There wasn't any grown brood, but there were lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of eggs in a very impressive pattern. Now that I remember they exist I need to remember to give them back to the bees once I'm done typing this. Anyways, I get done pulling down comb and sucking up bees and all the airborne bees are still completely ignoring all of the buckets. This is a great way to tell if you have the queen, because if she was in one of them, the bees on the outside would migrate to her bucket. So I'm just in bewilderment at how I haven't gotten her, and then I look down at my last bucket. On the grass next to it was a little ball of bees just sitting there. It looked kinda strange to me, so I got closer and gently nudged some out of the way and there was the queen!!! She had apparently just flown down in to the yard when I broke the hive open and started sucking them up. It was amazing because I was almost ready to pack up and leave. I quickly scrambled to grab her with my queen cage and plopped her in the bucket with the most bees. That gives way to her majesty's name, that shall be announced once I release her in to the hive in a few days.

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So apparently the miracle queen escaped and flew off with the MASSIVE colony I had extracted... This is a very bad day indeed...... Very bad... I had noticed a lack of activity when I got home from work, and apparently some time during today they picked up and left. Gonna go bike around and see if I spot the swarm, but I doubt I will...

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Pre-extraction readiness. Off to the side is all the pillow cases I used to cover the buckets. Full liter of water made zero ml of water quickly. Stay hydrated kids.

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