Drone laying

[Cmgsst]

I have a hive that has no brood except sporadic single capped drone and a few larvae. Shall I amalgamate with another hive? Is it queen less?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Queenless with a laying worker - safest thing to do is to shake the whole lot out in front of the other hives and removing everything of the shaken out hive from the original location. They'll beg their way into the other hives and their laying instinct should abate.

 

[fatshark]

Sounds like laying workers. Like this:

Drone laying queens have a focussed pattern, not sporadic.

Laying workers may kill the queen in the recipient hive when you unite colonies. Better at this time of the season to shake them out in front of other strong colonies probably.

 

[Cmgsst]

Thank you for your replies. Will be done tomorrow

 

[Erichalfbee]

Give them a good smoking first so that they fill up with food to take to the new hive as a bribe to get past the guards

 

[Cmgsst]

Good idea. Thank you

 

[Millet]

Here is what my laying worker did and as suggested by JBM that is what i did, can you see multiple eggs in each cell like the above picture.

 

[snelgrove]

Tell tale sign of laying workers is multiple eggs in queen cups as in yur photo also in other cells. They are in abundance.

 

[Millet]

Tell tale sign of laying workers is multiple eggs in queen cups as in yur photo also in other cells. They are in abundance.

 

[Plenty of honey]

excellent amount of eggs in those cells Millet, impressive, i only ever get about 5 max. looks like about 10 in each or more!!