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Offline Dunkel

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Interesting nuc
« on: August 13, 2016, 08:39:40 pm »
Well the little nuc I set out to capture the lost bees when extracting here a few weeks ago was packed.  I was needing to put them with a nuc and  then maybe a deep depending on if they took.  Well I went through the frames as I was putting them into one that I was going to newspaper combine.  The two med honey frames was packed with capped brood.  And there she was :o I guess I must have accidently pulled a queen with a super.  Oh well I hope what ever hive that was good luck with rearing a new one. I wonder how many queens actually do get pulled with supers by accident?
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Re: Interesting nuc
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2016, 09:09:50 pm »
Might want to check the hives that you took brood frames from, sometimes the only frame that has fresh eggs is the one the queen is on this time of year. :o Jack
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Re: Interesting nuc
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2016, 09:16:09 pm »
I use queen excluders and bee escapes so not very likely I bring home a queen. That said, stranger things have happened, I even agreed with Jack once! :o
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Re: Interesting nuc
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2016, 07:28:14 am »
this happens... even with great care this happens.  not directly related to nucs but to package making.... I don't know how many time I have gone with folks to shake packages and much later when we were unloading (several hundred) packages (at this point without queens) and found a queen clinging to the outside of a package.  a queen can still fly and it is not that unusual 'when' you do these sorts of things to have virgins flying and both can and will end up in almost any 'box' of bees with little problem. 

ps... I have long used the doolittle method of nuc making and the same thing can happen there if the queen (which was suppose to be in the bottom box) ends up in the top box when you pull bees and brood for nucs.  it is hard to figure out exactly how the queen got there but the evidence is clear she did.   to reinforce a point 'when' we do these things matters and the potential of capturing a virgin or newly mated queen is also not insignificant.
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