Different Types of Re-queening Methods

The number of re-queening methods are covered as below. The first step is to replacing the queen is to find and kill the old queen in the colony. If you want only re-queening some of your colonies, replace queens that are no longer laying large patches of brood or ones that you know that are the old or never able to produced big colonies. The normal method of killing a queen is to pinch from her head. Do not try to introduce a new queen until the old queen has been getting out from the colony for at least 36 hours. In some cases, you can wait longer then 36 hours. Don’t wait more than three days, however, if possible. The simplest way to introduce…