Date sent:              Mon, 24 Aug 1998 09:55:29 EDT
Send reply to:          Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology
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From:                   "(Thomas) (Cornick)" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:                Re: Laying Workers
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>    Just examined a hive of laying workers
> My first observation was that there were wax moth larvae small white wormlike
> things in the cells.
> On a closer look this turned out to be 2-3 eggs end to end on the cell walls.
> This is a hive which no matter what I did would not allow itself to be
> requeened nor would it raise it's own .
 
Further to this I would like to add the following.
        I have just cleaned up a laying worker in the above manner, but with a
major second problem. I added the laying worker brood box and frames to a 10
frame single box, with a good laying queen. A week later I opened them up to
have a look. No open brood, eggs or queen.
        It is possible I squished her, but unlikely. Is it possible the pheromones
etc. from the laying worker frames were enough to turn the workers off the
resident queen enough to remove her?
 
 
 
 
 
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