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Ah, okay, gotcha.

It was a 6 frame nuc that I originally added to a national brood box. When I added the 1/2 brood there was only 3 frames of undrawn foundation, with 6 frames with BIAS and 1 frame of drawn comb. I later removed a problematic frame and replaced with new foundation which is why I now have 4...

yes, the queen that i saw in the hive a couple of days ago is the same marked queen that was introduced. The mark is quite distinctive as it didn't make a nice round yellow dot on her thorax, was more of a crescent shape

Would if I could, first year beeking and I only have the one hive so don't have anywhere to transfer open brood in from. This first year has taught me that I should really have a least two hives, so I'm grabbing a second from the Thorne sale this weekend in readiness to run two next year.

I'm running brood and a half. In the full brood chamber there was 4 frames with undrawn foundation. 1 frame with about 25% pollen and the rest empty cells (though this was on the very back of the chamber) The rest of the frames were honey and capped drone brood although not completely...

Yes

This is a follow up to my post from a few weeks ago. I had to go for a two week holiday shortly after that last post. The push in cage from BeckysBeezzz didn't arrive in time either. So I just had to leave things as they were and hope for the best whilst I was away. Just got back on Saturday...

She has a few attendants in with her. If I could transfer them too would they nurse the brood or is their role going to stay purely attending the queen? I can see that there might be an advantage of using one of these. Because if the other bees kill her when released from the push in cage, at...

Worth a shot, have ordered one. But I expect they’ll have released her before it arrives, they really were extremely close to having her out already (there was a hole through the plug, just not big enough for a bee to pass through yet).

No, but then the top temperature where I am is going to max out at only 26-27 for a few hours on two days. The rest of the time it is going to be high teens/low twenties. I might top up the water station I have for them, but TBH don't think that will even be necessary as there is lots of...

Add RichardK to that list ;)

Have posted update as part of new thread as I now have many more/different questions https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/threads/introduced-new-queen-after-laying-workers-findings-from-first-inspection-and-what-next.53409/

This is an update on my findings following "dealing" with laying workers and introducing a new queen (original thread When to inspect after introducing new queen). Grateful for any advice. Okay, so just been out to inspect. Here what I think are the key points: New queen is still alive but...

Off to check the hive now, wish me luck, fingers crossed.

I don't mean that you shouldn't poopoo bad advice. But I would certainly find it more helpful if you provided some good advice as an alternative, or at least expand on why you are poopooing something. For example, I've even asked you direct questions in the thread to try and get a better...

did you shake out the laying workers first or just go straight to add the open brood frame and queen?

Yeah, I had read that because their ovaries swell they are heavier and can't fly. But that makes no sense because they can fly with masses of pollen in their baskets that has got to weigh more than some slightly bigger ovaries. I assumed therefore that the laying workers were choosing not to...

Do you have any constructive advice to add to this thread? You seem to be an experienced beekeeper, so no doubt have a lot of useful knowledge. But struggling to see you adding anything helpful in this thread, just poo-pooing what other people say.

Yeah, from what I’ve read that does seem like the better approach as they raise their new queen from an egg and the open brood pheromone helps to suppress the laying workers (or something like that). Also cheaper as you don’t need to fork out for a new queen. If anything this whole experience...

Thanks, I appreciate you saying this. I know some other forums can be a bit funny about the same question being asked.