There are several ways to deal with hot hives.  The hard part is getting 
into them first.  The easisest way to get into one that I found so far it to 
slid it down the hive stand and put a different hive in it's place on the 
stand.  The hot foragers move into the new hive, leaving the hot hive less 
guarded.  A day or two later you can open the hot hive pretty much 
unmolested.  As new foragers mature, the hive grows hot again, but you have 
a window to get into it the dispatch the queen.  I have not tried this with 
Africanized bees. (yet)

Jim Hock
Wethersfield, CT. 

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