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Addison McMurtry <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:14:29 -0700
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Multiple eggs per cell is a bad sign - it implies
laying workers and confirms your impression that the
capped cells are drone brood (eggs laid by laying
workers will all be drones).  Have you actually seen
the queen since you hived the package?  If you can
find her, I would cage her and replace her when the
new package arrives.  If you didn't order a new queen
with the new package, do so now - your queen (if even
present) is not adequate.  If your other hive is weak
as well, you could try combining them, but requeening
both and looking for environmental reasons that the
hives are failing might be a better course of action.
The same thing happened to me with my first hive - the
queen wasn't accepted and drone brood appeared
everywhere!  Things got back on track with requeening,
though the hive was slow and never filled out the
single deep completely that first season.
-Lee McMurtry






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