Bees

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[@mammamia200]

Thanks for referring the tshirts! I will definitely check them out👍 Love the bees but never experienced being a keeper. Leave it to you, experiencing it all

[@deborahmedley8119]

Dad. I. Love you from Shelby

[@DeverVision]

You bet! I’ll keep you updated as we do. I’ll do my best😎

[@evonnarisinger1950]

Dadant and Sons is in Frankfort and has lots of supplies, and I believe you can purchase Queens and bees from them. Call the Kentucky Beekeeper Association. They might be able to help you or recommend someone near you who can help you determine if you have a productive queen or not. Also, help you determine what is going on with the hive leaving or splitting.

[@DeverVision]

Thank you. I’ll check into it😎

[@TheTrueFelight]

You might not need to do anything. You most likely have a queen within the new swarm that moved in. I'd check for eggs in the cells. If you buy a queen and they already have one, they might fight the new one and you just waste your time. The point of swarms is to fly with a queen to make a new hive, it wouldn't make sense for queenless hive of bees to move to another place. Haven't grown bees myself but something that comes to mind why your old hive might have moved away for is that they might have felt that the nest was getting too small and they had no more room to expand, but only the bees know for sure why they decided to leave fully.

[@DeverVision]

Thank you for the info. I’ll give them a closer look inside.