This happens more often than not when you introduce a new queen
to a established older colony.
here's what I do and I get good results.
When the new queen arrives,  I put her
and one brood frame in a hive body off to the side.
I shake in some extra bees and semi-block the entrance.
I wait for about a week,  then with little or no smoke
check the hive to see if the queen was released.
If so, I can either let the hive build a little more and
then I put the new hive on top of the parent separated by
newspaper after killing the old queen.  The older field bees
which are hostile to new queens, stay in the bottom untill
they get the signals from the new queen.
Dave Verville
 
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> From: Ted Wout <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: FW: Queen killed by Field Bee force
> Date: Tuesday, February 25, 1997 10:02 AM
>
> Paul Cronshaw wrote:
> >Went back two days later.. and she was dead in the box.  In retrospect I
> >should have put her in one of the wooden, screen queen shipping cages
and
> >left her in for longer (3 days), then manually released her.
>
> Last year I had a hive that swarmed and then, for some reason, the new
> queen just wasn't a good layer.  The hive was despondent and was losing
> population.  I decided to requeen.  I bought a new buckfast queen from
> Weaver's in Navasota, TX, a more local and very reputable supplier.
> Before putting the wooden queen cage in the hive I released all of the
> attendants.  I found the old queen, pinched her and left her in the
> bottom of the hive.  I set the queen cage in the hive, candy end up,
> and left the hive alone for several days.  When I went back to check on
> her the queen was dead.  The bees had eaten away the candy and killed
> her for some reason.  I was out $14.  Does this just happen sometimes?
> Is there a better way?