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  • From: Todd Walker <mtwalker AT imageray.net>
  • To: <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [ocba] Laying worker in a mating nuc...
  • Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:00:47 -0400

A hive with laying workers think they have a queen and aren't likely to
accept a new one. Do a newspaper combine with a strong colony. The workers
from the queenright colony will get everything sorted out in a week or
two. After that you can split them back out.

~Todd



On 4/12/13 3:41 PM, "Blair Christian" <blair.christian AT gmail.com> wrote:

>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/57103178516494
>30305/5866026689338904802?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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