Hive at Officer Ed’s property cast a swarm which returned immediately to the hive body. I am not certain if this was a mating flight or if this was simply a swarm. This cluster of bees and queen was captured and put into a the Pine hive body at GG. Subsequently we were able to identify by the Bee’s behavior that this queen was mated and producing pheromones.
Upon opening the main hive body, approximately 4 other unhatched queens were found and an unmated queen was also found. The unmated queen was moved along with a few frames of bees to the Corona property for mating. These bees were put into a 5 frame NUC (001).