Hi Dan,
I am glad you found some brood.
About this time every year, I am plagued with people reporting exactly what
you said in your original message, they spend $10 bucks for a new queen,
install her, and she is killed.
I wrote about this in the June PINK PAGES which should be published today or
tomorrow on either:
www.cybertours.com/~midnitebee/ or
www.beekeeper.org/george_imirie/index.html
I hate getting new queens killed, since sometimes I use very special
EXPENSIVE queens
I hope you have a fine season!
BTW, Thanks for spelling my name right. It is Scottish and sure gets
misspelled.
George Imirie