Hi Lloyd & All,

>2.  Put a queen cell in a HONEY frame in the fall.  The theory is that the
>existing queen will not find the cell, the cell queen will emerge and mate
>and the 'old' queen will disappear.
>

This one sounds like a really good one if it works in theory. It might well
work as a supersedure and maybe both queens would even work together for a
period. I may just try this way to see how it works out. I will clip the
original queen to ID her and keep her from leaving the hive with workers.

There is only one problem I have with this way and that is I like to have a
backup mated Queen just in case bad weather fails mating the new Queen.

. . ..   Keith Malone, Chugiak, Alaska USA, http://www.cer.org/,
c(((([ Caucasian Bee Keeper, http://takeoff.to/alaskahoney/,
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ApiarianBreedersGuild/

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