Hello George and All,
George wrote:
> You state that you put new queen in a split of bees and capped
> > brood.  Capped brood doe not hold any NURSE bees.  Requeening
> > a colony that is mostly FORAGER age bees
> > is always tough and often results in non-acceptance.

A push in cage would have helped in the above situation in my opinion. Then
the queen would have been surrounded by newly emerged bees. Larger push in
cages are better than smaller in my opinion. When you see the push in cage
is full of queen and emerged bees you simply remove the push in cage.

Sincerely,
Bob Harrison
Ps. push in cages are easy to make. Place the queen alone in the push in
cage over brood about to emerge. The bees will care for the queen through
the wire and  when the brood is emerged she will start life in the hive with
her nurse bees.