The fact that they can be tricked into accepting an unrelated queen does
not change the fact that a change to an unrelated queen means the hive
is effectively dead.
Of course, it isn't like grafting a selected fruit variety onto a hardy rootstock. The new queen creates an entirely new colony. No quarrel there.
Pete
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