To the list -
 
Thank you all for your many helpful suggestions anent queen-hunting.  I
think they will ease our queen-finding efforts in future.
 
To allay concerns expressed by more than one respondent -- no, I do not
search for queens just for fun.  I only do it when I must requeen, and
this is such a time -- I have a "hot" (i.e., vicious) hive, with terrible
comb-building discipline (burr- and bridge-comb everywhere,
erratically-drawn comb on foundations), and no offsetting good qualities.
 Ergo, the queen must die.  Long live the queen.
 
Walter Weller
Post Office Box 270
Wakefield, Louisiana  70784
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