I used to do this with the queen-right hive body from a cell builder when I took her box away to make the cell builder queenless. Since I'd shaken most of her bees into the cell builder, they were nicely re-populated when placed above the excluder. I never used any newspaper and I didn't have any queen losses. Mike > I found this in an old pamphlet by Roger Morse and EJ Dyce. I was wondering if anyone has ever tried this: > > >> Strengthen weak colonies containing young prolific queens by placing them above strong colonies with a queen excluder and a piece of newspaper between them. *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html Guidelines for posting to BEE-L can be found at: http://honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm