theworker
New Bee
- Joined
- Jun 24, 2011
- Messages
- 7
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- Location
- ireland
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 12
I was faced a few days ago with a large laying worker colony in one of my polyhives. Queen did come through the winter OK but seemed to diasappear early March. Anyway they stated to lay drones a few weeks back and will not accept any eggs or a new queen. So i decided to destroy them as they had all the comb ruined etc and start again with a cleaned out hive.
So without thinking too much about it I didi the usual and closed it up one night and poured in a cup of petrol. Dali himself couldn't a done a better job on it. A surrealist nightmare is what happened with the petrol melting through the polyhive side and spilling the bees everywhere until they set in the melting plastic. Disaster.
What should I have done to kill a colony in a polyhive. What would happen to a foulbrood colony in a polyhive.
So without thinking too much about it I didi the usual and closed it up one night and poured in a cup of petrol. Dali himself couldn't a done a better job on it. A surrealist nightmare is what happened with the petrol melting through the polyhive side and spilling the bees everywhere until they set in the melting plastic. Disaster.
What should I have done to kill a colony in a polyhive. What would happen to a foulbrood colony in a polyhive.