Changes
If a queen needs to be replaced, a good time to change the [[queen ]] is in late summer during feeding.
Reasons for changing a queen:
*One reason for changing the queen could be that she is old. Brown bee queens can live and lay eggs for 3-4 years.
*Your bees turn out to be [[Cross-breeding|crossbred]] and you would like to exchange your current queen with a purebred and puremated queen, so that the colony turns into the wanted type.
See under [[Splitting Introducing a hivequeen]] for more detailed descriptions on how to go about changing the queen.
[[Category:Late summer]]
[[Category:Queen]]
