[Allen Dick]

Queen acceptance depends on a lot of things. Small hives accept better than large ones. Hives on a flow or feed accept better than hives on a dearth. Robbing will make acceptance difficult.

Also, young bees accept better than old ones, so if you are moving one half across the yard, move the one which will get the queen, since the older bees will drift out to the other half...

 

[Allen Dick]

> Having 2 queens laying allows you to check the new queen before killing the old.

I never bother killing the old one unless I see here and she is obviously no good. Otherwise, I figure the bees know best.

 

[Allen Dick]

I thought we were talking about splitting, raising a new queen in top, then recombining -- basically two-queening for a time.