hive cause the bees to kill their queen?
my answer to that is positively no! often we open the hive as soon as the queen is out of the cage and in thousands of such cases we never had a queen killed or injured. a common belief is that the hive should not be opened until two weeks after the queen is introduced. in case the queen is not properly introduced, the bees will ball her whether or not the hive is opened.
we have what we call the home yard cage-the cut will show how it is made.
often we have one or two queens to introduce in the home yard, and 