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  • From: Michael Shepherd <mdshep2000 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: "mdshep2000 AT yahoo.com" <mdshep2000 AT yahoo.com>
  • Cc: "<ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>" <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [ocba] laying worker
  • Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 13:11:06 -0400

As a new bee keeper this year, I started with two nucs the first of May. One nuc had queen with a spotty brood pattern and after a couple weeks the population started to decline so I replaced her and the population is slowing increasing. The other nuc was queenless when I installed it and after talking to the supplier of the nucs I let the bees try to make a new queen from eggs in the nuc to no success. I suspected a laying worker hive after seeing multiple egg in a couple cells. So I got a new queen, shook all the bees off the frames a distance away from the hive and inserted a frame of eggs from the other nuc a week and half ago hoping to correct the problem. But after inspecting the hive yesterday the new queen is not present and there is more cells with multiple eggs indicating a laying worker is still present. So what is the best option from here? A newspaper combine with my other nuc? Shake the bees out in front of the other hive and start over next year?  Other?  Any help is appreciated?

Thanks
Michael





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