Possible drone laying queen

[Janv]

I suspect a done laying queen in a weak colony. There is about 4 frames of bees and I can see a queen, she is new from a superceder cell late last season. There is a small spattering of drone brood on two frames.
Is there any point in putting a frames of eggs from another hive into them?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

sounds like she's long gone and you have laying workers. To be honest, I would just cut my losses and shake out.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Yes. Shake them out

 

[oliver90owner]

and I can see a queen,

Lets think about this in simple terms.

No point in adding anything unless that queen is already removed!

Remedy could be to ‘shake them out’ but we don’t know if there are other hives for the ‘shaken out’ bees to find.

Not going to be easy to get back to a decent colony in a hurry, but a queen cell added from a strong hive would be better than adding eggs and expecting a weak colony to raise a good sized queen.

Better still would be a fresh queen plus some emerging brood to bolster numbers, if that low. Adding just one frame initially, if there are few bees to keep the frame warm, and further as those bees emerge. Removing frames with lots of drone might also be beneficial.

There, some simple thoughts for the OP to mull over.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

I suspect a done laying queen in a weak colony. There is about 4 frames of bees and I can see a queen, she is new from a superceder cell late last season. There is a small spattering of drone brood on two frames.
Is there any point in putting a frames of eggs from another hive into them?

What you haven't told us is whether there are worker brood cells also present or is she laying exclusively drones