The First Meeting
When David first placed the new queen into the hive, it was a very tense moment. The bees noticed her arrival nearly instantly, with some of them trying to get close in order to suss out whether she was a worthy replacement for the hive.

The First Meeting
At first, David wasn’t sure that they were going to take to the new queen. There was a period of uncertainty, in which he was worried that a perfectly good queen might be killed by the colony. All he could do was keep an eye on their behavior, as the outcome was out of his hands.
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