kazmcc
Queen Bee
- Joined
- Jul 9, 2010
- Messages
- 3,147
- Reaction score
- 3
- Location
- Longsight, Manchester, UK
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- None, although I have my eye on one ( Just don't tell Dusty ;) )
Bumped into the wife of the guy who nicked our frame today. She stopped me and said I must be pleased we are Q+ again, so I asked them how theirs is. She said they haven't seen a queen, but they must have one because someone is laying, but it's all drone. I asked her if it could be a laying worker and she didn't know what one was.
I talked to her for a while and it turns out beekeeping is more difficult than they bargained for, and are losing heart. So, me, like a soft lump felt bad for them. I offered to help.
They have been Q- for a long time, a good few months now. So it's possible a worker has started laying. Although they did get my frame of eggs, so it may be a DLQ. I am going to take a look for them, just to make sure as i can't go off their observations can I?
So, it's a shook swarm jobbie then isn't it, if it is a LW. If it's a DLQ then I just squish her and requeen right? If i put a frame with eggs in, am I right in saying if it's a DLQ they won't draw QCs, if it's a LW then they will?
How does a shook swarm work and why? Just in case it comes to the worst
Am I about right here? Or could it be something else? Or do you resolve it by doing something else?
I talked to her for a while and it turns out beekeeping is more difficult than they bargained for, and are losing heart. So, me, like a soft lump felt bad for them. I offered to help.
They have been Q- for a long time, a good few months now. So it's possible a worker has started laying. Although they did get my frame of eggs, so it may be a DLQ. I am going to take a look for them, just to make sure as i can't go off their observations can I?
So, it's a shook swarm jobbie then isn't it, if it is a LW. If it's a DLQ then I just squish her and requeen right? If i put a frame with eggs in, am I right in saying if it's a DLQ they won't draw QCs, if it's a LW then they will?
How does a shook swarm work and why? Just in case it comes to the worst
Am I about right here? Or could it be something else? Or do you resolve it by doing something else?