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It important that laying queen is in the swarm hive. There are all foragers. Soon the queen starts laying, and itis inspired by foraged nectar and pollen. To put the queen into a nuc stops the build up of the colony.

That is extremely rare. Nothing helps then. Perhaps she met an accident. I do not know, what my friends have done, when several say that they have not succeeded. But often guys do not follow simple advices. I read artificial swarm system from English beekeeping book 40 years ago. It was not...

Normally it is too cold in the morning to open the hive. It is good too, if sun shines over the hive and over the hive frames.

I have noticed that if I use ready empty combs in making artificial swarm, and I put the laying queen into the swarm hive , 30% out of cases continue swarming fever. They make new queen cells. When I use foundations in artificial swarm box, bees start to draw cells inside 3 days. The queen...

That habit use to be, that if I give an advice, someone else comes and gives a controversy advice the winner will be the most simple humbug advice which does not work. Often a beginner asks an advice, can I do this way? If the answer is no, the beginner does however on his own way. Push...

Of course you must make sure, that killing does not happen. I have made many straingth introduction into the laying worker hive, and they have accepted the queen. I have offered something miserable queens, that I do not loose anything, if accident happens. Somehow a queenless colony must keep...

Why don't you put there a laying queen to the queenless colony? You loose one brood cycle when you put the colony make its own queen. And workers life cycle is short. You loose most of original bees when waiting 3 weeks.

It was very directly . No doubt. He wondered, how much I have bought mated queens to find these tricks.

I know these things so well that I do not need to read these texts properly. If laying workerS start, they are many. That is why there is a punch of eggs on the bottoms of cells. I know because I have made a test. I took all egg combs off and after couple of hours there was tens of eggs again...

You laughed to my 15 different options to introduce a queen, and now you ask help. To wait 8 days is strange. When the colony has capped its emergency cells, it accepts very well a new queen.

Give a frame of fresh larvae into the hive and worker laying stops. Bees feel themselves normal. I use to give the worst laying queen to the hive and I see what happens then. I do not remember that such colony has killed the laying queen. It is strange that modern version about worker layers...

But it was said, to shake them out is the best option. As Bible would say, the colony's days are numbered.

If there are laying workers, they have drone larvae too. And laying workers are not one, they are tens. Often bees try to rear queen or two from a drone larva That is old story, that a worker layer would bee like a real queen. That was noticed to be false 20 years ago. Antipodes, you should...

Bees are very old. They are not able to feed larvae ot queen larvae. If you are not willing to kill them, give to them a frame of emerging brood. Them buy to the a mated queen. There is no idea to try that they rear a new queen, which will be mated after a month. Then second month that new...

How many years' experience?

Every detail in beekeeping needs a book.

Requeen with foreign queens. Only way to handle the problem right now. Or sell hives forward. Later you can change the queens to better.

There is no such method like "best". It depends time of the season, how well bees accept the new queen. Age of queen is important . If the queen has arrived via post, bees often change it. In August when there is no yield any more, bees want to kill all introduced queens. In September during...

If it takes so much time, in Finland summer is over In USA it is said that hive is rippen to forage yield after 6 weeks. 3 weeks as brood, 3 weeks as home bee and 3 weeks as field bee. It depends, how big the colony is after winter. Varroa tend to reduce the colony before next season.