Drone brood, early sept.

[alfazer]

Had a quick look yesterday, which I was thinking would be my last of the season.
New 2016 queen, born in June, laying from mid July. She came from a frame with QC which I pulled from another colony late May to make increase.
Now, 2nd sept, there's a big seam of sealed drone brood amongst one frame of sealed worker brood.
Would this be getting late for drone brood? I was thinking at first maybe she's turned into a drone layer, but then I see younger worker brood present so all seems okay.

 

[Eyeman]

Maybe they are thinking of superseding her!

 

[chrisb]

I would not worry about it, they will kick them out when they feel the time is right or they need the space

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I cease worrying come this time of year - what will be will be. Time to let them sort themselves out now and ignore the 'advice' of all those fools who feel compelled to fiddle around every five minutes.

 

[Finman]

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In spring you have drone layer there, and the combs full of drone brood.
Buy a mated queen.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

 

[Millet]

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In spring you have drone layer there, and the combs full of drone brood.
Buy a mated queen.

That is exactly what i was going to say but then again i just remembered they will be cream cracked by then surely .

 

[Erichalfbee]

Not in spring. He means now

 

[Finman]

That is exactly what i was going to say but then again i just remembered they will be cream cracked by then surely .

Cool.

 

[chrisb]

confused now.com. WHY buy a mated queen when the one he has is laying already? as stated drone among worker brood.and not " only" drone

first thing that comes to mind is a 1970 beetles album

 

[Finman]

confused now.com. WHY buy a mated queen when the one he has is laying already? as stated drone among worker brood.and

Signs are such that bees want go change the queen. They rear new queen during autumn or winter, and it cannot mate.

Experience you know

Of course you may do nothing. Perhaps he loosed one hive , but who cares.

 

[Plenty of honey]

I cease worrying come this time of year - what will be will be. Time to let them sort themselves out now and ignore the 'advice' of all those fools who feel compelled to fiddle around every five minutes.

 

[Millet]

Not in spring. He means now

I know.

 

[beeno]

Yes, it is late for drone brood, but I have one colony that has made a small amount of drone brood too whilst at the same time dispatching them. Maybe the bees consider them past their sell buy date and are a bit confused by the late summer we are having at least in the SE. I still have got a couple of weeks to keep an eye on my colonies at this rate. Last September I saved one colony going into winter with a queen that had just become a drone layer.

 

[Finman]

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Strange beekeeping. Smokers must be best but queens must be worst.

 

[alfazer]

Thanks for replying folks.
I'll feed and just leave alone until Spring.

 

[Finman]

Thanks for replying folks.
I'll feed and just leave alone until Spring.

That exactly you should not do. But life teaches. Your bees.

 

[Cussword]

I see younger worker brood present so all seems okay.

It probably is. Do as you said in your last post, feed then leave them be.

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[Finman]

If bees want to change the Queen, it lays normally. Only bad signs are Queen cells and they do not give up from drones.