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Franklin Humphrey wrote:
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> Check the hive to see if there are any eggs. If there are any, you have
> laying workers. If not, you don t have laying workers yet. Give them a
> frame containing eggs and unsealed brood to deter laying workers. The danger
> here is that they will raise a queen from freshly hatched larva. You may
> wish to let them do that if they will.
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> If you do have laying workers you have a real problem. The following works
> most of the time for me:
> Make up a 2 or 3 nuc form another hive, using the new queen, and put it on
> top of the queenless one above a double screen. When the queen is accepted,
> set the nuc off to the side and carry the old hive some distance away . Take
> all the frames out of the old hive and lean them up against something .
> Shake all bees off the hive body and bottom board and return these to the
> original location. Next. Shake all bees off the frames ant put the frames
> back in the hive. Then, put the nuc back on top without the double screen.
> Most of the laying workers have never been out of the hive and will get
> lost in the grass.
> When the new queen is accepted reverse the hive bodies so that the queen is
> in the bottom brood chamber. She should already be laying at this point and
> will build up quickly
>
> Frank Humphrey
I do have brood in all stages in the split, I took 2 frames of brood from 2 different hives and put in the new
hive. I will have a new queen Monday, but that will mean that they have been queenless for at least 8 days.
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