Scott, Several weeks one of my hives had a Queen that just "stopped laying" as you described. I questioned the list about this but did not get any consistent replies. In my case I saw the queen so I was sure she was present. And while my other queens had slowed down their laying, they were still producing eggs. I waited about 2 weeks and checked again, still no eggs or brood, so I added a frame of brood and a queen from an observation hive I had. After about 10 days I checked again, the new queen was gone, the old queen still present and still no eggs or brood. I also noticed some supercedure cells on the frame I had added. I decided the old queen was no good and ordered a new queen. A week ago I opened the hive, located the old queen and a newly hatched virgin queen and crushed them both to the new queens cage and placed the cage into the hive. Yesterday I checked and found the new queen present, accepted and laying a nice small brood pattern. I hope this helps. Greg Z Mystic, CT On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 20:31:58 -0700 Buck Rut <[log in to unmask]> writes: >Greetings fellow Beekeepers, > This has been my first year as a beekeeper. It has been >fascinating and satisfying. I am eagerly looking forward to next >year. > My question is this. I live in the metro St. Louis area. Most >flows are over, and temps are cooling. I got into my 4 hives this >evening. One hive still had some eggs and brood. The 3 others showed >no eggs, and no brood. I thought the queens slowed down laying this >time of year, but am concerned about finding no eggs or brood in the >other 3 hives. I didnt have time to go queen searching, but all hives >were queenright 2 weeks ago. Do the queens quit laying completely? >Thanks for any light you are able to shed on this matter > >Scott Moser >Moser's Apiary >Cedar Hill, MO. > > > > >_________________________________________________________ >DO YOU YAHOO!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]