My Nucleus absconded

I agree Dan, it would have been hard for me to imagine at the time, that my early mentors who were full time beekeepers since the war were probably still learning new things themselves.

@Semaphore, Jack, that frame of brood probably wasn’t enough as one probably wasn’t enough in my case. The bees made a queen from that frame of brood, by the time she got mated, naturally all of the bees had emerged. She only just got laying, when out of the blue, they took off. All I can do is theorize & do whatever it takes to try to prevent it from happening again.

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