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Day 0: This is generally the hardest part of requeening a beehive you MUST find the queen. If you do not find the queen and you go and ahead and introduce a mated queen, the original queen will just kill her.
If you cant find her, take a look at this video to help track her down - FIND A QUEEN.
1. FIND QUEEN
Day 0: It's never nice to kill a living creature but in order to successfully requeen a beehive, you must first dispatch the original queen.
Once you have found the queen, pick her up and squish her between your fingers. This is the most humane method to kill a queen as it's as quick as it can possibly be.
2. KILL QUEEN
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Day 0: Once the queen has been killed, close the hive back and leave the bees alone for 8 days.
Day 8: After 8 days, go through every single frame and shake the bees off. Identify all emergency cells and remove then. Double check - you need to remove ALL the cells.
3. REMOVE CELLS
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Day 8: Immediately after destroying ALL the emergency cells, the colony is now hopelessly queenless. They have no queen and no resources (eggs or larvae) to create one.
Add a mated queen, in a sealed queen cage and place between two frames of brood. Do not remove the tab covering the fondant.
4. ADD CAGED QUEEN
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Day 10: Leave the sealed cage in between the brood frames for 24 hrs. This allows the bees to get used to the smell of their new queen.
After 24 hrs, you can remove the plastic tabs with a flat head screwdriver to expose the fondant. Place the cage back between the frames of brood and the bees will slowly release the queen. See different cage design below!
5. REMOVE FONDANT TABS
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Day 17: After 1 week, we go back and check for eggs to see if the queen has been successfully introduced. If you see eggs, then there is no need to see the queen.
If you dont see eggs, try and locate the queen. It can take 2-3 weeks for mated queens to come back into lay following being caged.
6. CHECK FOR EGGS
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The video below shows you how to make splits in the same apiary but the process is exactly the same for requeening a beehive. Instead of removing frames of bees from a donor colony, you just have to find and kill the queen and then complete all of the steps on the original donor hive. Good luck!
How to requeen a colony of bees in your beehive
If your queen arrives in a JZBZ cage like this, it is ALREADY primed for introduction and you can place directly into a hopelessly queenless hive.
There are no tabs to pop and the bees will eat the brown fondant and release the queen.
7. JZBZ CAGES
Should you wish to slow down the introduction, you can cover the tube with foil or plastic tape. This will stop the bees being able to release the queen.
Perfect for if you haven't reached that queenless status yet and you want to bank the queen.
8. SLOW IT DOWN
Finally, once you are ready to 'pop the tab' and let the bees start to eat through the fondant. You can safely remove the foil cover and the bees will recommence releasing the queen.
These cages are impregnated with queen pheromone which can help with acceptance.
9. 'POP THE TAB'
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