allen wrote:
> AHB will
> oftentimes not accept an EHB queen easily, permanently, or at all....

That was my shoot from the hip analysis, and I was going to recommend, "Cut
your losses, kill the hive and start over."

But A) I wasn't sure how the original poster knew his bees were actually
Africanized (could just be the hive got hot/nasty)
and B) there may be something to be learned by following this problem
through to whatever is its end.

So then I went to the "move the hive" strategy that others have suggested.
I'd lean towards a catcher nuc for the field bees and then search through
the depopulated hive to depose the queen.  Problem with that strategy is,
even the depopulated hive may be too nasty to find the queen (I had one that
I had to move twice, and then split the two doubles onto separate bottoms
before I finally found and deposed the nasty queen).  The other problem is
that if the nasty hive is truly Africanized, then the catcher nuc may end up
with the same problem (the European queen could be deposed by the AHB and
end up nasty).

So, the details Allen requested will be quite helpful.  I'm still not sure
that my shoot from the hip analysis to cut your losses and start over is
incorrect.

Aaron Morris - thinking nasty bees don't belong in a pleasant bee yard!

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