Worried about drone laying hives

[dudley]

I am about to extract my rape harvest but am worried.

Last year after removing my rape harvest from 2 hives they both went Drone laying. All I did was clear the honey supers of bees overnight, remove supers from the hives and replace with an empty supers and extract the full ones. But a few weeks later I discovered both of these hives had gone drone laying.
Both hives were near each other (about 4 feet apart). Other hives in the apiary were fine.
The thing is, I now have new colonies at this spot, again like last year they are very strong colonies with 3 supers on each.

I am really worried that I did something last year that caused the drone laying problem.
Did I? Can doing something wrong when extracting a harvest cause a hive to go drone laying or was it just a coincidence?

Thanks guys.

 

[Poly Hive]

Coincidence.

Drone laying = lack of sperm. Hence non fertilized egg laid which = drone.

I cannot see how taking of supers will affect her ability to use her stored sperms.

PH

 

[sawdstmakr]

Here in Florida we had the same thing happen a couple of months ago. Just as the hives are ready to start building they were producing masive numbers of drones. Happened to me and My mentor and numerous people in the club said they were seeing the same thing. Sounds normal. The frames that had mostly drones were ones that only had 1/4 foundation that I used for cut comb. Jim

 

[dudley]

Coincidence.

Drone laying = lack of sperm. Hence non fertilized egg laid which = drone.

I cannot see how taking of supers will affect her ability to use her stored sperms.

PH

Thanks, in my heart I didn't think it was anything I did but it was such a coincidence.