Bill Mares wrote:
> Someone at a local beekeepers' meeting suggested the following:
> When you replace an aging queen, find her, kill her, then rub her
>body on the cage of the new queen and carry out the rest of the new
>queen introduction as usual. Supposedly, this makes the bees more
>accepting of the new queen.
I always drop the old queen's body inside the hive. I was informed by an
experienced beekeeper some years back that the bees will know within 30
minutes that she is dead.
Betty McAdam
HOG BAY APIARY
Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island
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