Chris Deaves wrote: > d) THE POSITION OF WORKER-LAID EGGS. These are about 1/2 way down the sidewall > of the cell, not at the apex, as the worker can't reach the bottom. Also, there tend to be many per cell. > Treatment: > > Re-queening is not too reliable, as the colony is in a mode where it is > creating its own queen. It can help to add a frame of brood-all-stages to get the workers doing their proper jobs and a chance to start raising a new queen. You might speed the process by giving them a queen cell, or a virgin once they've started building Q cells, or a mated queen once they've capped a Q cell. -- Newsletter [log in to unmask] Compuserve 100332,3310 Gordon Scott [log in to unmask] ditto Basingstoke Beekeeper. The Newsletter of the Basingstoke & District Beekeepers' Association.