> Laying workers will readily fly back to the original location.

Hi Rebekah

I have just published an article that touches on this topic, in the American Bee Journal. Do you subscribe? I encourage all beekeepers to get the magazine, there is a wealth of into in each issue. My piece is titled "Anarchists in the Hive: The Mystery of Honey Bee Cooperation." Laying worker issues figure prominently, but there is a lot more, including the method for saving a hive with laying workers, from the fabulous book by L. E. Snelgrove. However, I state:

My only objection to this method is that you haven’t really "saved" a colony, you have simply started a new one amidst the old bees from the failed one. 

PLB

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