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Originally Posted by Black Diamond Bay
Do you just buy a new queen and stick her in, or do you have to start over from scratch?
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As long as the worker bees are healthy, you never need to start from scratch.
If for some reason you wanted to replace the queen, you would kill the old queen, and then add a new queen in a cage. The workers will accept the new queen by the time they have freed her.
This is why you can capture a wild swarm, add your own queen, and in a few months, all the bees are descendants of your queen, changing the hive from a feral one to a domesticated one.