So after my disastrous split which killed half the colony I was left with one hive but no queen. I installed a frame from my second hive and they later produced a queen. I did an inspection with my son saw the virgin queen and she flew away. Eventually they produced a new queen who is happily producing lot?s of brood. My new second hive is very strong. In June after a swarm there were no new eggs or brood. I purchased a new queen installed her, they come in a plastic cage which you leave in the hive for a day or two so they get used to her ?perfume?, then break a tab off and the bee?s eat in through some sugar candy and release the new queen. I checked a week later and no new queen. There had been a virgin queen in the hive that I had missed so that was a waste of ?50.00. This hive is now extremely vicious and on Friday I will go through the hive to find and destroy this queen and replace her with a Buckfast queen which are bread to be gentle and good honey producers. This breed were reared in Buckfast Abbey.