Regarding a laying worker hive, Chris Deaves wrote: > Otherwise, you can try and unite the affected colony with one that is > queen-right, to save the workers for use. I ususally just shake all the bees off the frames onto the ground in front of a queen-right hive. It's less bother than the other, standard methods of uniting and I've never known it fail. You loose the brood, of course, but that's no great loss since it's entirely small drones. -- Malcolm Roe Phone : +44 1442 345104 Crosfield Electronics Ltd Fax : +44 1442 343000 Hemel Hempstead, Herts. HP2 7RH, UK E-mail : [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------------------