Help relocation of wild bee's

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Anyone know y they are doing this .
 
My bet would be that one of those queen cells has hatched and they have tried to swarm but the queen has been unable to fly for some reason, maybe injured during the cut out from the trailer, and has fallen on the ground. Put a cardboard box over them, with a stick under one corner to prop it up an inch and leave it for a few hours. The bees should climb up into a top corner of the box and cluster there.
 
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Where do you live and what's the weather like? Have you been feeding or anything?
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South louisiana (buras) the temperature was in the 60s and it was the first day that has not been 30 mile per hour wind.
 
rebrascora said:
My bet would be that one of those queen cells has hatched and they have tried to swarm but the queen has been unable to fly for some reason, maybe injured during the cut out from the trailer, and has fallen on the ground. Put a cardboard box over them, with a stick under one corner to prop it up an inch and leave it for a few hours. The bees should climb up into a top  corner of the box and cluster there.
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It looked like they went back in the hive after a while.
There where 7 super seager cells for the new queen that they built be for we harvested them. After our second week it looked like she stopped laying. I was told one of the new queen's would take over.
I was all so told and read that they all fly out the hive and in to the air and leave when they swarm.
 
Those were probably emergency queen cells rather than supercedure cells because of the way you initially set u the hive with the empty box in the middle, however, it would appear that they have adapted when you rearranged the boxes and have now become swarm cells. When the first one is about to hatch, the old queen leaves the hive with about half the flying bees and they head off to find a new home, leaving a young queen to take over. For some reason, your old queen has been unable to fly and has fallen to the ground. The other bees in the swarm cluster around her to look after her until she can fly but will abandon her if she fails to take flight after a reasonable time. If you look closely on the ground or under the hive you may find her.
 
Good deal, they seem to have an amazing ability to fix their own problems. I feel like they are constantly fighting my mistakes, lol.
 

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