> Š•arly this spring I had forgotten to introduce a queen to a
> queenless hive. These days I noticed that it was attacked and robbed
> by the bees and nothing left but thieves and some honey in the
> combs.
This does not add up for me. Did you somehow stop the robbing or did it
stop by itself due to a flow beginning?
> nothing left but thieves and some honey in the combs. I decided to
> make a bee colony out of it. As usually I do splitting with brood
> and introduce queen without a problem I decided to experiment and try
> it just with bees. Any idea how to do it in this situation so that
> "the thieves" will accept the virgin queen efficiently.
Thieves do not normally remain in a robbed out hive. These bees may the
emerged brood or old bees from the colony itself.
In either case, thieves or a remnant, these bees will be too old by now
to accept a queen or do much in the unlikely event that she survives for
long.
You posted a week ago and by now you have probably done something. How
did it work out?
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