Hereit is again. Sorry for the first corruption. Several weeks agao a friend in central Maryland usa, who has been keeping honeybees longer than I, removed two shallow supers of honey from a strong doublebrooded colony. two weeks later, that hive, riddled with wax moth, had no bees left but two. On a top bar, he found ONE worker bee and the QUEEN, still alive. Has anybody out there ever hear of/experienced this B4? I haven't in 35 consecutive years of apiculture. Ciao. John Iannuzzi PhD * "Singing masons building roofs 9772 Old Annapolis Rd * of gold." --Shakespeare Ellicott City MD 21042 usa * 20 Italian colonies [log in to unmask] * 3-1/2 decades in beedom