We found 9 QUEEN BEES in this roof rescue 🤯 We even caught on camera a queen piping! Young queens do this during the process of swarming. A colony will raise multiple queens to replace an existing queen or to split their hive and swarm to a new location. In this case, they were likely going to swarm. There can also be 1 queen per colony, so any queens left behind will have to fight for their place in their colony by dualing another queen. Though sometimes the worker bees will take matters into