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> > There are ways to render colonies broodless and keep queens laying.
There are also other ways to break the brood cycle, if you are bound and determined to do it. In view of the procedure of caging the queen for x number of weeks, risking damage or supersedure, why not just kill her off and let them raise another. This would serve the same purpose, plus generate a young queen (usually a plus). Personally, I don't go in for such meddlesome approaches.
Mr. Coggshall, of West Groton, NY, relates:
> I have just finisht looking over the out-apiaries, and I find 7 per cent. dead. The balance are In fair condition. I expect to lose 5 per cent. from old queens, as I do not requeen. When I had only 300 or 400 colonies, and lookt after them alone, I requeened every two years and clipt the queens. I do not know but it would pay to put on extra help and requeen.
-- W. L. COGGSHALL. in: First Day of Spring Among Out-Apiaries ยท American Bee Journal: June 2, 1898
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