> Anyhow. The most foolproof method to deal with laying workers is to > combine the colony with a good one, and split again in several days > or weeks -- But remember this only works in spring! Doing it in the autumn will havethe reverse effect, no queen left at all. And it wouldn't be any good even if the queen would survive, when the bees from the queenless colony are too old to make it through winter anyway. -- Regards P-O Gustafsson, Sweden [log in to unmask] http://www.algonet.se/~beeman/