I read in some beekeeping text (I don't remember the specific text) that one treatment for laying workers that sometimes works is to move a couple of hundred feet from the hive and brush all bees off of all frames and hive parts onto the ground. Supposedly the laying worker almost never finds her way back to the hive. I assume that she has never been a forager and probably evolved from a nurse bee. Maybe that's why she doesn't know where the hive is located. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send online invitations with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com