My queen is dead after 27 days, tossed out, like the garbage...

[gundalf]

Ordering a new queen tomorrow from Walter Kelly in nearby Kentucky...   Thanks everyone for the input...  $31.00 for Natasha, delivered... ;)

[sarafina]

You will get lots of differing advice on re-queening, but this is what I was told last year when I re-queened......

Put the cage in but leave the cork in to make sure they have time to accept her as their new queen.  I destroyed the queen cells they had started because I had a hot hive and didn't want the genetics.  Plus I didn't want to set my hive back any more than it was by having a queen hatch and kill my mated queen and wait for her to mate and start laying.  I left the cork in for 2 days to make sure - they will feed her through the screen.  Then I pulled the cage, looked for more queen cells, pulled the cork, poked a hole in the candy and put her back in for them to release her.  When I checked about 4 days later she was released and they have been good ever since.

Good luck!

[gundalf]

Thank you Sara...