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On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:37:03 +1100, Geoff Manning <[log in to unmask]>
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>A mate in Victoria (Australia) just places the cell into the hive without
>removing the old queen.
Always looking for better/faster ways to requeen I asked a person that
sells nucs how he requeened all of his hives. He said he doesn't find the
old queen just puts on a queen excluder between honey supers and brood
chambers and puts the cell in the honey super. I tried this for four
years and the bees destroyed the cell before it hatched.
I had to move a bunch of really heavy three deep hives this spring that
had to be hand carried out of where they were. I went in and made three
to four nucs out of each one(didn't find any of the queens even though
they were marked) moved them, put a queen cell in each one including the
nucs, and all the queen cells hatched in nucs and hives. never found a
marked queen, all had new eggs at the same time.
So I'm going to try it again this year, I suspect that the removal of the
nucs made the bees think that the queen was failing, but will see if
repeatable. If it does I will have to see how much brood I have to remove
to trigger it because I missed the early flow's.
mike bassett syracuse n.y.
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