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Date:	Fri, 7 Jun 2013 07:06:45 -0400
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Subject:	Re: introducing queen to bees without larvae
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>  ...nothing left but thieves and some honey in the combs...
>  Any idea how to [introduce a virgin queen] in this situation so that "the
thieves" will accept the virgin queen efficiently.	

I'd say that you need magic bee glue, open brood.
Anything less, and the bees drift to other colonies in the yard.
I'd play safe, and put her in a queen cage too, but I am perhaps too
conservative when introducing queens.

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