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Geoff Manning <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 11 Aug 2017 18:11:08 +1000
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> Try dumping all the bees onto the ground a few yards from the hive.
> While they are there slip a frame of good brood into the hive plus a
> protected queen cell or caged laying queen.  If you use a queen release
> her in 3 days.  It usually works for me but nothing seems to be
> guaranteed with laying workers.  The other method is to continually put
> young brood into the hive till all the laying workers are dead but that
> is probably not worth all the brood and effort.
> 
> Steve Rose N. Wales

You have been reading my mail.  That is the method we use, although we don't
seldom do the personal release as the site is mostly too far away to be
going back for that purpose alone.

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