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[ocba] laying workers - Please check my logic before I jump!
- From: Hamsiba Family <hamsibas AT gmail.com>
- To: Orange County Beekeepers Association <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [ocba] laying workers - Please check my logic before I jump!
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 16:38:19 -0400
We have:
- a previously strong hive, now queenless with laying workers: lots of drone brood, no worker brood. Two deeps of drone brood, necter and pollen, little capped honey.
- a strong queenright hive, lots of open brood. One deep of brood and pollen and a medium of honey and nectar.
- a post-flow nuc with a couple of nice queen cells, just closed up this week.
What is the easiest way to proceed? My first thought would be -
- Newspaper combine a consolidated box of the laying worker hive on top of the strong queenright hive's deep + medium.
- after pulling some of the most prolific frames of drone brood for freezing and later cleanup in the combined hive.
The other wrinkle was to first do a couple of weeks with a double screenboard between the two hives, then switch to newspaper to combine. Would this have a better chance of success or just give the laying workers more time to repopulate with more drone brood after I remove frames?
If there were more hives here, I could try just shaking them out and letting them divide themselves between several hives, but we only have one hive and a nuc to work with besides the laying worker colony.
I don't really want to use open brood frames from my one strong colony to try to convert the laying worker hive over weeks this time around.
If this all worked, I can divide down with or without using the nuc later if needed.
Any better ideas? Have I missed something?
Cheers,
Brad Kosiba
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[ocba] laying workers - Please check my logic before I jump!,
Hamsiba Family, 06/18/2015
- Re: [ocba] laying workers - Please check my logic before I jump!, Randall Austin, 06/18/2015
- Re: [ocba] laying workers - Please check my logic before I jump!, Walter Starks, 06/18/2015
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