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Central IL. near Peoria.

Black locust is in bloom here.

Had a hive swarm. Moved into a dead out. Might be 2 swarms as another dead out had a lot of activity. I will check when it is not raining.

Returned from the cabin to find a swarm in one of my traps. I will move them tonight and put them in a 10 frame tomorrow. They may have been in there 2 weeks +.

I have been seeing scouting activity at my 3 swarm traps for about a week now, Today I peeked in them today and one had more bees than the others. I think a choice may have been made.

Heard from Ralphie and the story continues. He put in a marked queen in both hives 2 weeks ago. Checked on them today and one hive has a unmarked queen. Wrong color even. No new eggs or brood. Just a few drone cells capped in regular comb.

Heard from Ralphie. He got 2 queens for his hives and hopes there are enough workers to care for them.

Poor Ralphie if it weren't for bad luck he would have no luck at all.

I sent you a message.

I texted him and he sent pics but I do not know how to get them from phone to here. Electric fence was not on due snow damage that he had not fixed yet.

Checked the hives and found a capped queen cell. I made a split with it.

Waiting for swarm cells to do a split. I have a dead out to fill.

His 2 hives made it through the winter and he plans to split them.

I checked my hives and put bottom box on top. Lots of bees and brood. No swarm cells yet. I have a dead out to fill.

Got to 60+ today. I put pollen patties in my hives. 40s rest of the week. Bees may not fly much.

Got to 59 today. One of my maple trees is blooming and bees were bringing in pollen. Snow on Friday.

61 today 55 yesterday . Bees have been flying . All seems well .

Wind has letup . So I painted some supers and brood boxes . I spray painted . So much easier .

So it was whipped not creamed due to too full of extractor . Returned to normal after a day . So much for cool weather extracting .

Do a mite treatment .