>>> compare the money spent on requeening and the actual return, versus -- say -- the same money invested in queen >>> Add to that the 21 day MIN downtime <><><> If one were to use a double screen Snellgrove board then one could raise a new queen above the old colony and not loose the lowering production of the old, failing queen. When the new queen starts laying, join the two colonies. Mike in LA *********************************************** 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