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farm work for dinner and again when he’s through for the day. He’s looking for swarms of bees to put in his new hives. “Bees are like chickens,’’ Pullen said. “You just have some queens who lay a lot of eggs. When the gum gets crowded, the workers make a special cell for the new queen and cap it with royal jelly. That will make any egg into a queen.”
“Now, when the new queen hatches the old queen leaves the gum and the worker bees swarm around her. That’s how I start my new hives.”
To collect swarms and put them in a hive, Pullen has invented a special box that he can carry anywhere. It’s a simple matter to transfer the new swarm from his box to the hive. His swarm box has mesh “windows” for ven
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