You don't have to but it lowers the success rate quite a bit if you don't
destroy the old queen or put her in a nuke to start another hive.
At 07:59 AM 5/1/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Could anyone give me some insight on how to introduce a new queen to a
>colony?  I am a second year bee keeper.
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>Do I have to find the old queen and destroy her before the introduction?
>
>John M. Wolford
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