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Waldemar,
A postscript to my last message:
You had written, "He has a failing queen (poor brood pattern with a lot of
drone cells) and he's getting a new queen."
I neglected to suggest that you should look first to see if there was any
capped worker brood. A lack of worker brood and the existence of drone
brood and a spotty pattern and/or drones the size of worker bees is
indicative of a worker layer; if there exists no worker brood with normal
sized drones then the queen is a drone layer. The former, worker layer, is
more difficult to introduce a new queen than the later. Recent discussion
on the BEE-L has dealt with queen introductions and various suggestions
with this problem. IMO this is best accomplished with a nuc having a good
queen and a nuc introduction board placed over the failing hive. Hope that
I have helped.
Regards,
Chuck
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