If some of you are going to re-queen your hives.......would you consider
sending your old dead queen to me along with a drone and worker for my
project display?
 
I know I said I am going to use pictures and that is true but I am still
going to have a small collection of real "live", dead, bees. :-)
 
Why not let the old girl have a shrine on my biology classroom wall?
 
>  You can then
> either kill the old queen and recombine or, if you want to make increase,
> requeen the old hive which can be wintered as a standalone, or atop
> existing colonies, depending on the severity of your winter.
>
> Patrick M. O'Hearn
> Bears Choice Honey
> Aztec, NM