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On June 4, 2021 I added another nuc to my beehive family. This was also from Mary Bouma. I put it in my tan long hive. The only wrinkle was that the commercial beekeeper had just come the day before and placed 60 or more hives less than a half mile from my hives. I had set up the empty hive in anticipation of getting the nuc and had put two partial frames of honey in it. Because of that, it was swarming with robber bees the night before installing the nuc. I picked up the