Hi All
 
I just united a queenless with a queenright colony using the newspaper
method. I then began thinking about the best procedure, supposing that the
queenless colony had a queen which I could not find, and which I did not
wish to survive the uniting process. (I assume that each hive has one brood
chamber.)
 
Suppose that two queen excluders were placed between the two brood chambers
in addition to the sheet of newspaper. The two excluders would guarantee
that the two queens could not make any physical contact. Then, would not the
queen in the upper brood chamber be eventually trapped there, once all brood
had emerged, and would then either die or could be dispatched by the
beekeeper.? I suddenly thought, what of the drones in the upper colony!. I
should be grateful for comments or suggestions.
 
Sincerely
 
Tom Barrett
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