OK, I killed the queen of the hot hive. It is so hot I certainly wouldn't introduce a nice queen today in a cage or not. And not just temperature hot, these ladies are down right rowdy. And have been since spring. Too hot to work, don't respond to smoke even, just kept right on trying to sting...

Hello I'm new to splicing. I have spliced 10 larva 1 day old to 10 queen cups. I made sure that the larva was set in the queen cup the same way that i pulled it out of the wax. I then placed it in a queen-less hive. Then came back to check it 3 days later to find that there was wax pulled...