This is the type of queen I like to see in a swarm.
I picked up this little cast swarm on Friday 30th about a mile and a half from my house and put it in an apidea with 2 apidea supers on, now extended to 3 supers.
She had mated and was laying 6 days later.
I took the apidea stack into the shed today to clip and mark her.
I found her quite quickly but she flew off the frame and out the door of the shed.
I brought the apidea back to its spot and caught her at the entrance 2 minutes later.
Bet she wasn't expecting that!
Amazing difference between this one and the yellow one I got in a bait hive a couple of weeks earlier.
black-queen-cast-swarm.jpg yellow queen3.jpg
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