Queen cells into laying worker colony

[seyc]

If you put queen cells into a laying worker colony, what will happen? The laying worker tries to swarm with some of the bees? The laying worker will kill the cells? The laying worker will get superseded?

[RayMarler]

I've never tried it, but if I did, I'd put it in with a frame of open larva. I think I'd put in a frame of open larva for 3 days and then insert the queen cell ready to emerge. As to your questions and forecasts... I think they would not swarm, but would either accept the virgin or kill her.

[Maryland Beekeeper]

I'll put my money on the queen.

Cheers,
Drew

[Michael Palmer]

As a queen breeder, I encounter laying worker mating nucs all the time. If the nuc rejects the cell I give them twice in a row, without winding up with a laying queen, they'll have laying workers. My solution is to re-cell them. More often than not, the cell will be accepted and the nuc will be queen-right 16 days later.

[Michael Bush]

In my experience they will accept the new queen most but not all of the time.