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If I believe that both of my two new hives are queenless, and I get new queens shipped to me and install them in the hive, what will happen if the hives already have queens? Can it hurt anything? Wouldn't they just kill the new queens?
A couple queens would come to 40-50$ plus shipping, I'm in my first year of beekeeping that almost seems like a worthwhile expendature because a dieing or unproductive hive seems a lot worse than possibly wasting 30 bucks on a hive.
I know I can just hope that they make a replacement queen themselves but then the hive will have to wait a month for her to produce, and then you miss out on a month's worth of laying time so I don't really want to lose the time.
Any thoughts?
A couple queens would come to 40-50$ plus shipping, I'm in my first year of beekeeping that almost seems like a worthwhile expendature because a dieing or unproductive hive seems a lot worse than possibly wasting 30 bucks on a hive.
I know I can just hope that they make a replacement queen themselves but then the hive will have to wait a month for her to produce, and then you miss out on a month's worth of laying time so I don't really want to lose the time.
Any thoughts?