Hi Bee-lovers !
 
About laying workers flying ...
 
 
On Wed, 17 May 1995 12:29:40 -0400 John Batson (Greenville SC)
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> Recent discussions suggested that laying workers can't
> fly, or don't fly as well as non-laying workers, and that
> is why dumping all bees out in the grass some distance
> from the hive will work when requeening.
 
On Wed, 17 May 1995 12:28:30 -0600
W. Allen Dick, Beekeeper  (Swalwell Alberta Canada VE6CFK)
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> Could it just be that they do not know where the hive mis, having not
> been out lately and have little chance of finding it again?
 
Thu, 18 May 1995 10:15 +0200
 
Yes Allen, and your opinion is in agreement with the advices of the
Luxemburg Buckfast Bee Breeder Jos Guth : Laying workers are a serious
problem to a breeder : don't dump them in your breeding yard but at least
at 2-3 km !
 
In your breeding area, the next cases could happen :
Dumped laying workers get in ...
 
 1/ a nuc with queen cells and they destroy them !
 
 2/ a "waiting for a cell" nuc and this never more accept them !
 
 3/ a nuc with young queen (not established -adult- before 4 to 6 weeks
      - Brother Adam in his book Beekeeping at Buckfast Abbey) and
      kill her or causes her balling !
 
In an ordinary beeyard with only established colonies with laying queens,
there is usually no problem : the laying workers *don't enter* or
*can't enter* these hives.
 
Cheers
Jean-Marie    <[log in to unmask]>