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  • From: Blair Christian <blair.christian AT gmail.com>
  • To: ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [ocba] Laying worker in a mating nuc...
  • Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:41:01 -0400

Hi All,

I had one mating nuc from my 3/10 eggs that didn't work out and now
has a laying worker. (maybe more than one?). A week ago I pulled the
frame with eggs and put it into a strong hive, replacing it with open
brood, but the laying worker issue is still there. I put in a queen
cell yesterday. How would you all play it? Start from scratch,
rotating the frames into stronger colonies? I'm pretty sure the
laying worker(s) killed a queen that I put in there last Friday and
released last Sunday. The other 3 mating nucs I put out produced
queens, 2 of them are great queens, and one is a dud. The good queens
didn't have eggs at day 34, but did at day 38. (dates from this
calendar)
http://www.thebeeyard.org/cgi-bin/queencalendar.pl?month=3&day=8&year=2013

Defective queen (they were balling her and running her and had chewed
off(?) most of her wings):
https://plus.google.com/photos/106022773068627809372/albums/5710317851649430305/5866026689338904802?banner=pwa

Thoughts? I'm thinking put the current bees into a strong colony and
start with a fresh frame of brood.

Best,
Blair




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