At 10:02 PM 6/23/96 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi -
>
>It's a beautiful day here in southern California and I've just finished
>checking my only hive that was started from a mail-order package three
>weeks ago. Everything looked good - there were larvae and new bees exiting
>cells. I have a few questions tho' -
>
>There was alot of burr comb that I cleaned up. Most had honey but there
>was also a few cells with larvae in them. I never saw the queen (although
>I looked pretty hard) and after putting everything back together I began
>to wonder whether I could accidentally harm her and how likely that might
>be. I saw two very large clumps of bees and thought that perhaps that she
>might be in one of those. Has anyone damaged a queen while servicing a
>hive?
>How do you know if you have? How long should I wait before re-entering the
>hive?
>
>Also, I had put two Apistan strips in the hive three weeks ago, but these
>strips were from an opened package that had sat around for one year. I
>replaced those two strips today with new strips (expensive! $22 here in
>CA). Was that the right thing to do?
>------------------
>Richard
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Hi Richard
 
There is an old rule in beekeeping that has probably saved many queens.
The rule is:  Treat every frame as if the queen were on it.
 
If you do this you shouldn't have to worry about injuring the queen.
 
Frank Humphrey
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