sometimes - but usually it's the workers who manipulate the whole thing.
Thank you,l am the same,l am also nervous of the tube and plunger,It’s the transfer back onto the comb,the queen might take off.
Thanks,that will work for other things give them privacy.
Please verify! You are shaking out a bait hive and then try to requeen it.
Would be worth standing the hive on blocks in the tubs so the legs aren't soaking up the water. Or put each leg in a little plastic bag then in the water?
Never noticed ants being an issue with bees - got quite a few hives where the ants use the crown boards as nursery areas to rear the pupae.
I would have shook it if was laying workers.but l thought with the drone laying queen dead and the drone larvae gone l could treat them as a recently queenless lot,my interest was how common is a completely drone laying queen with a swarm.
Mated or unmated?
I was told with laying workers,as they have never flown wouldn’t find the parent hive,l think with your comment different rules.all the bees flew in so all will fly back,maybe the queen who flew in with them would also find way back,but she died in the hive so l and they didn’t need to walk,l didn’t think they contained laying workers as the queen did the laying,l put in a frame of brood eggs pollen new foundation,feed,and will remedy later,lt was just the queen straight into drones that threw me,is that unusual.
why wouldn't laying workers fly? it's an absolute myth you've been told
The thinking must be that laying workers must be very young,you would need to dissect there ovaries,perhaps it’s a myth that’s come on from the dark ages,but l still don’t know how common a drone laying swarm queen from the start is.thankyou for the help.
Some people think,wax moth larvae go on a walk about at night,never seen any myself.perhaps the queen does.But seriously the amount of work some people give the bees to clear up is unbelievable.perhaps they draw straws for looking after the queen,as she lives on royal jelly perhaps the work load is light.
