Re-Queening Virgin

[Busy Bee]

Hi,

If you have a suspect virgin queen in a hive how can you re-queen with a mated queen without getting to complicated?


Busy Bee

 

[Andre cardona]

fined and kill virgin queen cage the new one so she feed her way out i think good luck

 

[VEG]

As you seem unsure if there is a queen in there, put a test frame in. This will tell you if there is a queen in there. If no Q cells are made you have a queen. Next you would have to find that queen if you want to remove her. Then you can go about introducing a bought in Q.

 

[Busy Bee]

The queen is found and removed (frozen), can the new mated queen be introduced using standard "Butler" cage and around 6-8 hours without them killing her(I know there is always a risk).

Busy Bee

 

[Midland Beek]

The queen is found and removed (frozen), can the new mated queen be introduced using standard "Butler" cage and around 6-8 hours without them killing her(I know there is always a risk).

Yes.

However, note that you are not replacing like for like, and as such the risk of it not working will be higher.