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>The only drawback with fall requeening is that the populations are much
>large rin the fall an dthe queen is harder to find.
 
>Allen
 
A method that has worked well for me and allows fall requeening but makes
it easier to find the queen is to make up some splits, place new queens in
them and, after several weeks, move these onto the hivestand of the hive to
be requeened.  Move the old hive away and let the field bees move to the
split.  Lots less bees to look through in the old hive.  You can then
either kill the old queen and recombine or, if you want to make increase,
requeen the old hive which can be wintered as a standalone, or atop
existing colonies, depending on the severity of your winter.
 
Patrick M. O'Hearn
Bears Choice Honey
Aztec, NM