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On 8/28/2016 4:12 PM, Rebekah Lee wrote:
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> Considering all or most of the laying workers make it back and "thinking"
> they're queen right, are they likely to foil a re queening attempt?
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In my experience it's extremely difficult to requeen a hive with laying
workers if you try it by conventional methods. I have found some
success though when employing one or both of the following tricks:
a) Insert a frame of open worker brood from a queenright hive. After 2
or 3 weeks the laying will cease and the bees, albeit ancient by then -
apart from the ones from the given brood, will often accept a queen.
b) Give a protected queen cell. They can't prevent the new queen's
emergence and often seem to accept the virgin as a supersedure queen.
Unfortunately both these methods will give you a hive that is severely
weakened. It's better to prevent laying workers in the first place by
giving a queenless colony an occasional frame of brood while you
organise a new queen for them. In addition, if the brood is of good
stock you can let them raise an emergency queen from it. I find workers
start laying around 3 weeks after the last of the brood emerges.
Steve Rose
North Wales
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