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[Randall Austin <s.randall.austin AT gmail.com>]

Karin,

You don't need to buy a queen. Your 2 hives are in the process of making new ones and they will kill any store-bought queen you try to introduce. See the article <here> for full information.

For those that DO need to buy queens, Bailey Bee Supply in Hillsborough has lots of them for sale and will do so throughout the season. They are Italians, $32 unmarked, $37 marked.

Randall Austin

On 4/9/2017 9:24 PM, Karin Winstead wrote:

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Suggestions on where to buy queen locally?
Both of my new hives have no queen.  Last confirmed sighting was 2 weeks ago.  One hive has multiple queen cells (capped) and a little bit of capped brood.  Last week had just one queen cell, uncapped and small pupae.  The other has nothing but sugar water/nectar and pollen.

I'm thinking to let the one with queen cells hatch.  First to hatch will take care of the other queen cells, take off to mate, then get back to business.  

If I can't get a queen locally and quickly, can I swap a frame in that has a couple of queen cells on it???

Thanks 
Karin

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