What are my options for a laying worker colony

[Boston Bees]

Who told you that? from personal observation that does not happen.
They will be let in as any extra workers are a boost to the colony, the strong queen pheromones in the host colony will supress the workers' laying instinct.
Every colony has laying workers, but a queenright colony will police it

Any colony the laying workers try to enter will either not let them in, or will kill them (unless they can revert to normal worker status, in which case, fine).

 

[Finman]

Yes. They think they are queenright. That's the point

Point is that bees known when they are queenless another thing is, that they are able to rear a new queen.

Hopelessly queenless means that bees have no hope to rear new queen.

Boston, how many years you have kept hives?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Any colony the laying workers try to enter will either not let them in, or will kill them (unless they can revert to normal worker status, in which case, fine).

Glad you realised your comment was incorrect @Boston Bees after it being pointed out
Then editing the original post so it made some sense

 

[Boston Bees]

Glad you realised your comment was incorrect @Boston Bees after it being pointed out
Then editing the original post so it made some sense

I edited it as I was writing it,

 

[Finman]

Longer than you.

Then I understand why, and I understand why you do not have a sheep or many sheeps.

I have afford to admit.... I loose nothing from me when I do it. Main thing is that you feel happy....

 

[Earthboy]

I usually just shake out the bees and use the equipment somewhere else. Adding good brood to laying worker colonies seems like good wood on bad. One thing...in my mating nucs, if the nuc misses twice in a row there will be laying workers. We add a comb of emerging and a ripe cell. More often than not there will be a mated queen next time around. You'll see many laying worker colonies attempting to raise a new queen. Of course they can't, so will accept a queen cell.

One cannot overemphasize on the importance of Mike's point on queen "cell," and not a new "queen." In the event of dumping the colony (with a queen if she is there), there will be a small cluster of hapless retinue [loyalists] surrounding her majesty in the grass, asking "What the hell just happened?"

 

[Finman]

Wh

One cannot overemphasize on the importance of Mike's point on queen "cell," and not a new "queen."

What ever you do with bees and what ever advice you read, you chould allways use your own brain and fit the advice in proper context.

When I say that give to the colony a frame of larvae. When I do it, I keep the frame two days. Not more. I do not start to load to a queeless hive brood frames and no one does that.

But discussion goes that way, that, are you going to do this and this way. The meaning is to draw a hat over your face and say: nice to see you.

I am really tired to this style. Same year after year, same persons

This worker layer discussion has been tens of times in this forum, but it does not become better. And those vodka greetings are as sure as moon on sky. Brittish people use as much alkohol as Finnish people.

It is so nice to hear that a forum member calls another member alcoholic. And the moderator does nothing. He/ She is only laugh.

A laying worker is not worth of this kind debating what I see here.

What I tell to all you, that the Sun rises from East and sets in West.

 

[Earthboy]

>>>He/ She is only happy. On Glennfidich single molt???? Definitely not mead.

 

[Erichalfbee]

I bumped this thread so we could talk about Ocimene a bottle of which I found in my honey cupboard. Faint hope!