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Today, the bees swarmed from the hive. This means that they produced a second Queen...and the first one got upseat (jealous, caddy, petulant) and took half of the workers (100,000 little tikes) with her as she flew off to look for a new home. Fortunately, Jeff happened to be mowing the lawn just under the tree that they flew to. He saw the swarm...stayed very calm...got in his bee suit...climbed up a 50 foot tree in a stormy wind...and cut the hive down...stuffed it into a portable back pack....and then gently placed them back into a second hive.

Now....the fight is on inside the hive. Tonight the two Queen bees will duke it out all night stinging each other until one of them dies and gives up her hive the winner queen bee. The winner will have all 200,000 bees under her spell by morning - as we all sleep warm and snug in our safe little beds.