>REQUEENING HONEY BEE COLONIES WITHOUT DEQUEENING
Bv I. W. FORSTER (15 October 1971
Open access at
  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00288233.1972.10421270
<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00288233.1972.10421270>

Results: More introduced queens survived when the division containing the
young queen was stronger than the parent colony headed by the original
queen (Table 4). However, bee strength varied in both groups, ranging from
a parent colony three times as strong as the division to the reverse. In
the sole colony where both queens were lost, division and parent colony
each contained 12 frames of bees. The survival rate of young queens was
unaffected by either total or relative bee strength of parent colonies and
divisions.

Discussion:   Beekeepers can successfully requeen two-storeyed colonies by
raising the original queen and the brood nest above a division board,
rearing a young queen from an introduced cell in the bottom storey, and
then reuniting both storeys when most advantageous.

Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
530 277 4450
ScientificBeekeeping.com <http://scientificbeekeeping.com/>


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