>Using a wire funnel
>and trapping the hive into a hive body attached to the duck box might work,
>but it would take longer, not "get" the queen,
In our experience (twice), the queen has followed. However, a recent
posting on this listserve advises using a queenright box. The box does not
have to be attached to the structure you want to get the bees out of.
MEA McNeil