Walter T. Weller wrote:
>
> What's a better way to find and catch the queen (unmarked) in a normal
> colony (i.e., two deeps full of bees and brood)?  My straightforward
> approach of pulling frames and looking them over, one by one, doesn't
> work very well for me.  My eyeglasses get covered with sweat so I can't
> see, and I get covered with mad bees stinging through my bee-suit, before
> I find the old lady.
 
I read the following method
- 2 hives
- take from each hive a frame with brood in all stadia
- exchange them
- wait 10 min.
- on those frame the queen can be found (she is looking for her rival)
 
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