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Hi Charles

Do you use queen excluders?

Not in spring when we do this,  at that time we are running a deep with one
or two supers,  the cell is placed in the top super between honey frames.
You need enough bees that there are some at the top,  we see less success
when the box is overflowing with bees so timing is kind of important.  
I find it interesting as from what I have seen hatched virgins first stop
and feed and then rapidly drop down into the box,  not sure why or what they
do as I quickly lose sight of them.

Several notes of other methods that seem to be fraught with problems,  so it
would seem technique is a key factor.  Since I have not tried them myself  I
can't tell you why one works and the others don't.

As for excluders,  after we do this is about when we add them.  Mid May for
my area we move to singles with excluders, bees are shaken down to the
bottom box and excluder put on then.  There will be some brood in the
supers,  we just let that hatch at that point and backfill.

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