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Coleene Davidson <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 8 Jun 2002 14:08:25 -0400
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Hello again,
First, thanks much for all of the help.  I will try to respond with more
info-

Capped brood vs Open brood:
    I did the same thing last year with some open brood.  The bees did NOT
want to accept the queen.  When I called a veteran beekeeper I had received
help from in the past  he said the brood should be capped because with
young-very young, the bees can produce their own queen and there may have
been one being started, so this year I used capped brood. Also, George, I
was feeding these bees with 1:1 sugar syrup in addition to spraying them
with sugar syrup.

Other than that, I pulled 3 frames of brood and bees from the parent hive
and put them in a second hive.  Before I installed the new queen, I
inspected and reinspected the split to insure no eggs or young brood to make
certain the queen hadn't been moved with the brood and other bees.  I then
put the queen cage on the top bars.  The bees did not act nasty and some,
after inspecting the cage started fanning.

I am getting ready to go and re-check the hive again.  Fortunately, I have a
hive that came through the winter weak, but building.  If the new queen has
been dispatched, the brood and bees from the split will give them a boost.

Thanks again,
Coleene

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