I have checked my swarm hive, and I found the queen. In my hive with the lost queen, I cannot see anything, even though the queen cell Bill and I had seen is empty. I decide to combine the two hives.
   

Bill tells me that I need to open the new hive, place newspaper on top of it, then add the brood super from the queenless hive, and close up for at least 24 hours. He says, "they will chew through the newspaper." But because they were able to smell each other before they make it through the newspaper, they will be able to live together. When I open the hive 36 hours later, I see a big hole in the two layers of newspaper. The remaining newspaper lies on the floor of the hive. The photograph shows the chewed edge.

Now there are two supers, each coming from a different colony, living together with one queen. If I did overlook a queen, then the stronger one would have killed its competitor.
    The hive stands among the blueberries, here in the morning sun.

On May 22, Sylvie and I go to a presentation Heinz, another hobby beekeeper, shows how to rear queens. He lives in a very wooded area, and their garden is full of flowers. Agnes is on the left standing next to the table on which Heinz has arranged the materials used for the rearing of queens.