By searching the archives I see that these little bugers have been talked about quite extensivly. However I could not find any reference to my problem. As you may notice by my tone in the first sentence I am losing respect for the Russian Queen. Acttually I have some animosity towards them! I requeen three strong hives this spring and not one of them was accepted. Being a little bullheaded I chose to try to force the issue with one hive. After it killed the first queen I waited 1.5 weeks and installed another that did not work. So I released the third one into a comb cage after which the bees chewed under the cage killing the queen. But not before she laid quite a number of eggs. Well I have one queen left and I have run out of ideas. Interestingly enough I also installed five 5lb.packages of Italians with Russian queens all were accepted and are doing quite well. So I am looking for some ideas as how to handle my last queen. Almost Queenless and pretty much broke. Garrett Martin