Requeening aggressive hives in Oklahoma may not apply to the norm.
Nonetheless, my procedure for requeening hives is to find and kill
the queen and immediately insert a marked queen in a screened cage
between two frames of emerging brood. Seven days later, each frame of
brood is inspected for queen cells which are destroyed; and, the
marked queen is manually released into the colony. It is not unusual
to find up to a half-dozen or more capped queen cells in each colony
being requeened. Oftentimes, bees are obscuring the queen cells;
thus, bees are shook from the frames for ease of inspection. Two
weeks after releasing the marked queen, the colony is checked for
brood and the marked queen. So far, 100% of the manually released
marked queens have been accepted by the requeened colonies.
Jim Young
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