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introduce to this newly formed nucleus hive a queen cell from 
one of the nuclei already formed, by carefully cutting out the 
queen cell with sufficient adhering comb to permit of its being 
thereby attached by a pin to the nucleus comb: great care must 
be taken not to crush, jar, or chill the queen cell during this 
operation. 
Keep the nuclei well covered, to conserve heat. Attend to 
feeding, giving syrup if necessary (108), 
150. Management or better, give a frame of sealed food from 
of Nuclei. a stock that can spare it. When the pre- 
sence of eggs regularly deposited denotes 
that young queens in nuclei have been fertilized, they may be 
given to stocks in which they are required to replace aged or 
defective queens: when a queen has been removed from a 
nucleus, a capped queen cell or brood frame containing a queen 
cell or eggs may be introduced to the queenless nucleus for the 
purpose of providing another queen (149). 
There are many good queen cages; it will suffice to describe 
the use of one, the “‘ Abbott”? cage (55) ; 
151. Caging Queen. which can be recommended. If the queen 
is on a frame, have the cage at hand, 
opened to receive her; rest the frame on which the queen is 
on the hive, supporting it with the left hand, and with the right 
hand catch the queen gently by the wings (Fig. 41), insert her 
by the opening at the bottom of the cage; as soon as her body 
is in the cage let go her wings, cover the opening with a finger, 
and when she moves up the cage, adjust the wire to close it. 
If the queen has been received in a box, take it to a room, 
close the window, open the box by lifting the lid; do not slide 
the lid, as the queen might be injured by doing so; catch the 
queen by the wings and cage her as above described. The queen 
should always be held by the wings or the thorax, but never by 
the abdomen. 
If it is desired to place the queen in a match-box (158), in lieu 
of a cage, the queen if in a hive may be caught as above described 
and placed in the match box; but if the queen is to be trans- 
ferred from the travelling box (154) in which she was received 
to a match box, all that is necessary is to open each box 
sufficiently to allow her to pass from one into the other when 
they are placed in contact. 
The best time for general re-queening of stocks is the autumn. 
: There is a danger of bees objecting to a 
152. Introducing newly introduced queen, and killing her 
Queen to Stack by “ balling” her, that is, surrounding her 
a ie and hugging her or starving her to death. 
It is therefore best, especially in the case 
of a valuable queen, to adopt the precaution of introducing her 
by means of a cage, such as the Abbott queen cage (55), which 
may be introduced between two frames in the centre of the brood 
nest, through a hole in the quilt large enough to let the cage pass 
