Yeah, again!

After the swarm there are at least 3 virgin queens roaming the colony:

A solid gold one that is pretty much chill.  She moves slowly and has very few bees in her retinue.  The bees seem to pretty much ignore her.

A stripy one that moves freely around the colony pausing frequently to pipe.

And a pale gold one that ran maniacally throughout the colony and met an early demise!

It will be interesting to see how this all works out.  At this rate, they’ll be swarming in January!