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Queen Bee
- Joined
- Mar 4, 2011
- Messages
- 12,461
- Reaction score
- 3,810
- Location
- Somerset levels
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 5
I have been using air freshener for uniting for a couple of years with no problem so....when my move to Somerset left me with a badly mated queen in one hive and a good laying queen in a nuc I decided to dispose of the bad queen and put the frames from the nuc with the good queen straight into the hive. A quick squirt of air freshener into the hive, a quick squirt into the nuc and wack them all together. One more squirt for good luck and hey presto, no fighting, no nothing, they just got on with life and accepted their new new queen as though she had been there forever. It makes life so easy I don't know why I bothered with newspaper and queen cages etc!
Worth a try if you need to get things done quickly!
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Worth a try if you need to get things done quickly!
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