Last week I discovered that one of my queens has been laying sporadic brood and needed to be requeened. I ordered a buckfast queen from R. Weaver in Navasota, TX and she arrived yesterday. We are having a cold front come through later today so I had to get her in today or end up waiting about 5 days. So I introduced her in the cage but as I started, I remembered several conflicting pieces of advice. I've been told to point the hole in the candy end down. I've been told to point it up. I've heard that I shouldn't point it straight up but angled up. I've been told not to worry about the attendants, introduce her with them. I've been told to remove all the attendants. I've been told to remove all but one attendant. I've been told to introduce her in the frames at the middle of the brood nest. I have also heard that we should introduce in the frames nest to the brood nest. Some people just let the queen walk in the hive. Now I know that if you ask ten beekeepers a question you'll get eleven different answers. Isn't there some common wisdom? Or is it that certain methods become the accepted common wisdom and them someone does a study proving that the accepted common wisdom is flawed. Then some people change and others stick to what they've been doing. So we have people offering contradictory advice. Or could it be that certain situations require different strategies? I could see that queen introduction is different with package bees because you wouldn't remove the attendants. Also if you didn't remove the attendants, you wouldn't point the hole down because the bees in the hive would kill the attendants and then they would clog the queens exit. If you do remove attendants, how do you do it without losing the queen? I may be starting some controversy but I'm wondering why I've heard conflicting advice on queen introduction.