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  • From: Tom Wright <twright AT vicksburg.com>
  • To: Konrad Catolos <koncat AT nc.rr.com>
  • Cc: ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [ocba] Problem hive
  • Date: Sun, 09 May 2010 20:51:25 -0400

I take it you are unable to find the new queen or the old queen. Queen introduction is difficult unless there is a honey flow. First, be sure there is not a queen in there. If there's brood, there is. It won't hurt to introduce some frames from the other hive. Brush as many bees off of the ntroduced frames as possible. If there are larvae less than three days old, tiny, tiny and there is no queen, they will make queen cells. Then you have to check frequently and make sure one emerges and returns to the hive.

Tom

Konrad Catolos wrote:
Hi everybody,

We got a new queen for our hive. We think that the original queen was rejected because there was no activity. It has been a week since we introduced the new queen and unfortunately, the bees in this hive do not seem to have accepted this queen either. There aren't a whole lot of bees in it, compared to our other hive and there is no activity in the combs.
Any advice on this would be great. We were thinking of taking some of the
frames from the good hive and placing them in the other one to get it going,
but not sure if this will work.

Thanks,
Tanya
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