>Another thing you may be able to do to make finding the queen easier is
>to choose the time carefully.  Don't choose to look on a heavily
>overcast day or in the evening, when most of the foragers are at home,
>particularly in high summer when the population is near maximum!
 
Reply from Adrian
 
    Yes, of course.  I forgot to mention that matter of timing, since it is
quite automatic for me to work with a colony only under good weather
conditions, preferably when the field force is absent from the hive -- less
squashing bees that way, too.
                                        Adrian
 
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