Re-Queening

[martynhyde]

I suspect one of my hives has been queen less for several weeks now.
Is it possible to create a nucleus from another hive using a few frames of nurse bees with an introduced bought mated queen and the unite it with the queen less colony? Or is it too late for them to accept each other?

 

[Cussword]

Why not introduce the bought queen to the queen less hive? Although if you're not sure, uniting would make sense. I wouldn't have thought that it was too late.

 

[Thymallus]

I suspect one of my hives has been queen less for several weeks now.
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Did she have a laying queen? Has she, like many this season simply stopped laying? Have you tried a test frame with eggs/newly hatched larvae to test this? (not infallible, but indicative).
Several weeks will be long enough for laying workers if queenless....is this the case?
I think more information is required.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Yes, test frame first and take it from there.