Surprisingly Calm For A Queenless Hive
What surprised Glover was that the bees were still amazingly calm despite being queenless. Bees tend to become agitated and aggressive when the queen dies, but according to a Tweet by Glover, this colony was quite co-operative. This could be due to an observation he made earlier.
As previously mentioned, he saw 13 queen cells in the hive while removing the last few bricks from the wall. This could mean that these bees acted quickly to fertilize new queens, and were calmly waiting for their new monarch to continue reproducing for the hive.
