>I read with interest your method of introducing the new queen and nucleus
>hive and wondered if a strip of mesh over a third or half of the box would
>help to introduce the queen by allowing the other bees in the main hive to
>"smell" her and adopt her prior to the paper being eaten through, much like
>the candy in the cage method.
>
>I would appreciate your thoughts as I was interested in breeding my own
>queens this year, just for interest and I was pondering the introduction
>method.
>
Unless the weather is inclement, when using the newspaper uniting method I
punch two or three holes through the newspaper with the hive tool.  This
enables the queen's pheromones to permeate the entire hive area and I think
encourages the bees to remove the newspaper barrier.
 
Betty McAdam
HOG BAY APIARY
Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island
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