The bees will follow into the new hive especially if the queen and brood can be transferred.

Probably not, though with the young warriors as nervous to be moving to a new hive as they are, I can't say for certain.

'In the normal course of things, how long do you judge before a new hive is able to begin commerce?'

Once within our new hive, we shall teach them what they must know to become good warriors.

Once a suitable site is found, the swarm following the old queen takes off and begins constructing its new hive.

But this May, she got two new hives - and the bees are already busy doing what they do best.

We will be able to start a new hive soon.

I set the queen-cage in a wooden box called a deep super, the base of a new hive.

One warm afternoon recently, I opened the new hive.

It was the nucleus that could grow a new hive from the remnant of the old.