Perhaps this swarm decided that they would prefer to be shipped somewhere to start there new home, so they waited? It took four days of them being here before someone thought they would call a beekeeper🥹Extremely surprising to me that the scout bees couldn’t find a suitable location in four days. Hence, why I think they were waiting to be shipped😂They did start extracting some beeswax though, but not enough that they were considering an Open Air Hive?
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