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Beeboy01:
HP there isn't any real reason why I put the old queen aside, maybe I would rather have her as backup until the introduction of the new ones succeed. I'll dispatch her during the week just so I don't try something stupid with her down the road. As to #4 I introduced the new queen in it this afternoon when I got back from the flea/farmers market and the bees seemed to accept her with no balling on the queen cage. Whether or not #4 had a virgin queen was on the back of my mind when tearing it down yesterday. When I transferred the  frames to the new boxes I gave them a real good going over and I'm pretty confident there wasn't a virgin running around.

  The flea/farmers market went well and more than paid for the queens. Still have some extra bottled honey and with this year's crop coming in I need to make it a regular stop maybe once or twice a month. 

TheHoneyPump:
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