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built up. A nucleus hive of this sort must be placed 

 in a warm room, unless it is hot weather, as there are 

 no bees to warm the brood. Care must also be 

 taken to put a wire screen over the entrance of the 

 hive for a day or two to prevent the queen from 

 escaping if she becomes uneasy midst such a dreary 

 waste of adolescence. 



MAXIMS FOR INTRODUCING QUEENS 



Be sure the colony is queenless before attempting 

 to introduce a queen. 



Be sure the bees have not progressed far in rearing 

 young queens. 



Be careful not to anger or disturb the bees by 

 smoke or hot blast or otherwise when placing the 

 queen in the hive. 



If honey is scarce, feed the colony before trying 

 to introduce the queen. 



Place the cage containing the queen on the frames 

 near the centre of the brood-chamber, wire cloth 

 below her, so that the cage rests on the bars of the 

 frames. 



Do not disturb the colony for forty-eight hours 

 after introducing the queen-cage. 



Be careful not to allow the queen to escape by 

 flight when liberating her. 



Remember, a queen crawls up instead of down. 



After queens are two or three years old they 

 should be replaced by young queens. 



