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  • From: Hamsiba Family <hamsibas AT gmail.com>
  • To: Orange County Beekeepers Association <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [ocba] Laying workers 2, beekeeper 0
  • Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 10:43:37 -0400

Well, we once had two hives in Chapel Hill.  One went queenless and began to show laying workers.  I newspaper combined it with the other and ended up with one large queenless, laying worker hive.

I bought a queen last week, confirmed release a few days later and looked in today to find only a few scattered drone cells and a lot of very pissed off bees gathering late summer food for nobody.

I still have a couple of hives in Chatham, but am not going to blow one of them on this bunch.  Any last salvage ideas out there?  I am ready to write this one off at this point.  Sad to see the last of our two original hives go down for the count!  Kind of puts a new meaning to take you losses before winter....

Brad


  • [ocba] Laying workers 2, beekeeper 0, Hamsiba Family, 07/31/2015

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