requeening follow-up.

Started by rober, April 17, 2014, 06:29:27 PM

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rober

April 17, 2014, 06:29:27 PM
re-queened last Thursday. queens in 3 hives are not out yet. should I let them out? the bees seem to bee ok with them.

hjon71

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April 17, 2014, 06:54:51 PM
As soon as everyone is getting along(no biting/balling), you should be golden.
Quite difficult matters can be explained even to a slow-witted man, if only he has not already adopted a wrong opinion about them; but the simplest things cannot be made clear even to a very intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he already knows, and knows indubitably, the truth of the matter under consideration. -Leo Tolstoy

iddee

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April 17, 2014, 08:48:14 PM
I check 7 days after installing a new queen. If not requeening italians with a russian queen, I would release her if they had not done so. When installing a russian queen I wait10 days to release her.
"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything can happen, child. Anything can be"

*Shel Silverstein*

BeeMaster2

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April 17, 2014, 11:57:04 PM
7 days is more than enough for Italian's. I have placed a queen directly into a hive, slowly, that had been with out a queen for a day or so. Last week I put a new q (marked her) in a cage, placed her on top of the top frames for an hour in a hive that i knew was q less. An hour later I checked on how they reacted and let her out. She is still in there.
Jim
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