I've learned (the hard way) that a hive of laying workers cannot be
requeened.  Can, however,  a hive of laying workers be combined with a
healthy hive using the neswpaper/queen excluder method, or will they
just kill the queen once they get through the newspaper?  Has anyone
ever tried?
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        Yes, put the healthy hive on top over a piece of newspaper with some
slits cut into it.
         And, yes, I have done this successfully.
              (I guess you ought to put the laying worker colony under the
healthy hive on the healthy hive stand. )
Tim
Tim Sterrett
Westtown, (Southeastern) Pennsylvania, USA
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