Help. This is my first year of bee-keeping. On going through my hive 4 weeks
ago I found drone brood above the queen excluder in the supers, no eggs and
a small amount of sealed and unsealed worker brood in the brood chamber and
no queen cells. I requeened it and put in some frames of brood, but there is
no sign of new worker brood or eggs and I can't see the queen. There are
scattered drone cells in the brood chamber and I guess I have drone laying
workers.
I took a small swarm or cast 2 weeks ago from a farm 7 miles away. My plan
is to move the hive containing this swarm to the site of the old hive, move
the old colony ½ mile away and shake off the bees so that they fly back to
the new hive, leaving the drone laying workers. If I do this will the new
queen (and colony) be accepted by the old colony which is much larger or
will I lose everything?


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