Introducing queen

[mat]

I have one strong hive but the queen is failing, just drone brood. I tried yesterday and today and I couldn't find her. But I found few empty queen cells, and one filled with milk, capped drone brood, and eggs. So there is queen for sure.  Waiting for new queen to hatch is to long. Is there any way of introducing new laing queen (I have spare one) with the old one still in the hive, and not loosing the new one?

[Michael Bush]

>Is there any way of introducing new laing queen (I have spare one) with the old one still in the hive, and not loosing the new one?

Not a reliable one, no.

[Brian D. Bray]

If yoou have a failing queen with the evidence of supercedure taking place and you want to hurry up the replacement by re-queening you will need to kill the old queen and wiat a day or so before introducing a new one.  You can always use the queen cells to make a nuc and raise extra queens.

[mat]

Thank you guys. I think I'll give them a few days and try again to find her.