I would have posted this last week but was annoyed by our bees.

The Augustine saga has been:

1. Bee hive cut out of mom’s house and put in our backyard, no queen

2. We give them frame of brood from Ambrose and they raise their own queen (probably a mean one)

3. We buy $30 queen and re-queen them with her by killing the other queen

4. They toss the $30 queen out of the hive, we put her back in the hive

5. They kill her or toss her out again and she dies; now they’re queenless

6. (As of last week) We give them one more frame of brood from Ambrose to let them raise their own queen and hopefully survive.

Also in this time, they got infested by wax worms twice, which are about the nastiest things you have ever seen.

Unless the queen they raise is the Wicked Witch of the West, we plan to let them do their own thing and not waste any more money on expensive queens they reject!

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