>>Easiest way I find the queen in a hot hive is to insert queen 
excluders between all boxes and wait at least 4 days.

I saw a nifty device used to find/trap queens on a recent visit to 
Poland.  A beekeeper showed me a home-made, double-chamber queen 
cage.  The two chambers were separated by #4 mesh.  The 'bait' 
chamber contained a mature queen, the other one was empty except for 
a screened cone entrance.

The idea is that the resident queen will seek to find and kill the 
caged queen.  She will crawl all around trying to get access to the 
cage queen until she walks in throught the screen cone.  She can't 
back out.  The beekeeper said he typically gets the resident queen 
within 24 hours. 

Waldemar
Long Island, NY

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