> We requeen on a regular basis. At times up to four beekeepers finding and
> dispatching old queens.

Yes but do they keep looking in a hive once they have found the queen?

I can tell you from first hand experience that when re-queening, I have
found a queen on the first or second frame but it is only that I caught a
glimpse of a pulled down queen cell in the corner of a frame that I looked
further and have found either a second queen or a virgin.  If I had not seen
that remains of a cell I would have had the queen I put in killed by the
queen or virgin left in the hive.

Particularly in autumn (fall for you northerners) is the time when I find
this.

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA

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