> Anyhow.  The most foolproof method to deal with laying workers is to
> combine the colony with a good one, and split again in several days
> or weeks --
 
But remember this only works in spring! Doing it in the autumn will havethe
reverse effect, no queen left at all. And it wouldn't be any good even if
the queen would survive, when the bees from the queenless colony are
too old to make it through winter anyway.
 
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Regards
 
P-O Gustafsson, Sweden
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