A neighbour of mine is dividing his colony this weekend. He is going through all the normal procedures except preceding any building of swarm cells. Just moving the hive to one side and putting new hive on original site. All as normal except that moving queen and frame of brood into one hive so forcing the queenless colony to immediately develop one of the worker eggs into queens.
I thought an emergency queen was not a good idea from the breeding point of view as well as egg production??
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