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Date: | Sun, 11 May 1997 22:12:06 -0700 |
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John Wolford wrote:
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> I just finished adding supers to on hive. During the winter I was feeding
> this colony of bees with the bag type feeder which utilizes a small super
> that is placed on top of the hive body. Once the bees had finished off the
> sacks of sugar water they built comb in the area. Today I scaped the comb
> off the top board and placed the comb on top of the top bars of the bee
> hive so I could add the queen excluder and my supers. It was pretty messy.
> Should have I, or shouldn't have I done this. What are the consequences
Consequences- it'll be messy. You could have scaped them onto
the ground as long as you know the colonyis disease free.
> Also, I have one hive that is queenless and has laying workers. I placed
> two frames of brood from a strong hive into this hive. I was told to do
> this so they would develop a new queen. I did this about 7 days ago. I
> checked today and did not notice any new queen cells. I need some help on
The bees recognize the laying workers as queen and will not
build q cells. They would be inferior anyhow. The only way I have been
able to consistantly resolvle this problem is to introduce a queenright
nuc to the laying worker colony. It can be just a 2 frame nuc, if the
colony is strong n number. If weak treat it as a dead out and introduce
a 4 frame nuc.
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