At 01:04 AM 8/18/96 -0400, you wrote: >?1. Is how long to wait to give them a new queen the old one is going to be >left in the >wall after all the workers come out? >?2. If anybody else has tryed this before I would like to know how your job >turned out >in the end? > >Thank you! >Charles >e-mail at: >[log in to unmask] >[log in to unmask] >BEE END & BEE HAPPY!!!!!!!!! > > I have never "trapped bees out" before. I have asked a bee remover this same question. What happens with the queen situation in the "new" hive? His reply was: "The old queen becomes stressed with no supply laddened returning foragers, she will then come out and into the "new" hive." Dan Mihalyfi Mihalyfi Apiaries Watsonville, CA 95076 [log in to unmask]