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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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