>
> >In the middle of a nice day, when bees are flying well, remove the
> bad-tempered stock bodily to a new position about a dozen yards away.


Even better is to insert a queen excluder between all boxes of the hot hive
a week prior to the above (and you only need to move a few yards).  Then
once you've moved the hive, your search for the queen is narrowed to only
one box, which can be easily shaken through an excludered "seive box."

The hive of young bees will readily accept a new queen.  The field force
returning to the original stand, however, often not so readily.

One thing that works for me is to use a weak colony to catch the returning
field bees.  I cage the queen with a candy plug, and feed the colony if
there is no flow on.

-- 
Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
www.ScientificBeekeeping.com

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