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Instructions
Purchase a queen from a mail order company. She will arrive in the mail in a shipping cage containing sugar candy.
Find the old queen. Remove and destroy.
Spray the new queen and her box with a sugar syrup containing vanilla or peppermint.
Take a small nail and remove the cork from the end of the queen cage containing sugar candy.
Place the queen's cage on the hive's bottom board, over the top bars, or between two frames.
Be sure the screen is open toward the bees so they can feed the queen during the introduction. The bees will eat the sugar candy and release the queen.
Spray more of the sugar syrup containing vanilla or peppermint on the queen and on some frames in the hive you are re-queening. By the time the odor of vanilla or peppermint is gone, the queen will be accepted.