>So i wonder, Tim or anyone else, will a colony like this make queens if they
>get a frame of eggs or larvae in the right age from a colony that is
>queenright?

What this colony *will* do is anybody's guess. If you give eggs, the
*may* raise a queen, or they may fizzle out. What is most likely to
work is to combine them with another queenright hive. You can use
newspaper to prevent fighting. In fact, it is a good idea to make up
new colonies each year to have on hand for the purpose of saving or
resurrecting colonies like this that are in trouble.

On the other hand, it would probably be just as well to dump the bees
out of such a hive and forget about them. All the more reason to have
a certain percentage of new hives (10% or more) coming along to make
up for the normal losses that occur.


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