Hi Eric,
        
yes it is possible...
 
IF YOU HAVE :
 
1° A QUEEN THAT IS OLD. 
2° ONE THAT USED ALL THE SPERMA THAT SHE COLLECTED DURING THE MATING FLIGHT.
3° A QUEEN THAT IS STILL A VIRGIN.
 
 
It is easy to make the difference between a bad queen and laying workers: 
The eggs position is not the same.
 
Laying workers place their eggs any place in the cells, normaly you will 
find many eggs per cell.
 
A poor (bad) queen : the eggs will be placed correctly in the middle of 
the botton of the cells.
 
 
 
To my knowlege, there is no easy way to place again a queen on laying workers...
but you can try to replace a bad queen.
 
I have alway destroyed populations that had laying workers...with the hope
that some bee will flight to an other hive. 
 
Bernard.
 
 
 
At 08:23 18/09/97 -0600, you wrote:
>At 09:22 PM 16/09/97 GMT+0200, you wrote:
>>Hi All
>>
>>I checked on one of my favourite beeyards yesterday and I found that
>>something I tried had worked. We have a peculiar quirk around here
>>that workers will lay eggs if a queen dies and these will be raised
>>and develop into other workers as opposed to drones as normal. So,
>>when one of my hives developend laying workers it rapidly atrophied
>>into a lethargic irritating five frame hive with a bad laying
>>pattern.
>
>I would like to hear more about these laying workers.  Could it be that
>there is a poor queen running around laying eggs?
>
>Eric
>
>Eric Abell
>Gibbons, Alberta Canada T0A 1N0
>Ph/fax (403) 998 3143
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