greengumbo
House Bee
- Joined
- Jun 6, 2012
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
- Hive Type
- Langstroth
- Number of Hives
- 35
So continuing from my other thread about eggs being found last week this was my last post......turns out she is a drone layer afterall - grrrrrrrr.
My original queen was laying nice worker brood then the bees in their infinite wisdom supersedured her. Things going fine, eggs found last week then last night found it is all drone.
I am going to get a replacement queen. Should have done it a long time ago but ho hum its all good experience.
Will be hunting the DLQ as soon as the weather gets better.
A few questions:
1. What should I do with the capped drone brood at the moment ?
Scrape it out, score it ? Will they clean out / repair the cells ?
I dont have any spare drawn frames so I would like to keep these ones in use.
2. Ditto unsealed cells with eggs in ?
3. I am treating with apilife var at the moment. When I introduce the new queen is this likely to mask the pheremone or anything ?
4. Any other hints on queen introduction etc ?
There are plenty of bees in the colony so I am determined to keep trying to get it through winter. Some introduction to the art ! Its been fun though
My original queen was laying nice worker brood then the bees in their infinite wisdom supersedured her. Things going fine, eggs found last week then last night found it is all drone.
I am going to get a replacement queen. Should have done it a long time ago but ho hum its all good experience.
Will be hunting the DLQ as soon as the weather gets better.
A few questions:
1. What should I do with the capped drone brood at the moment ?
Scrape it out, score it ? Will they clean out / repair the cells ?
I dont have any spare drawn frames so I would like to keep these ones in use.
2. Ditto unsealed cells with eggs in ?
3. I am treating with apilife var at the moment. When I introduce the new queen is this likely to mask the pheremone or anything ?
4. Any other hints on queen introduction etc ?
There are plenty of bees in the colony so I am determined to keep trying to get it through winter. Some introduction to the art ! Its been fun though
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