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Offline capt44

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Re: Laying Workers
« Reply #20 on: May 09, 2015, 10:36:27 pm »
Quote from: brooksbeefarm on May 02, 2015, 08:14:23 pm
Do you put all the frames with drone brood back in the hive or replace it with foundation? Sounds like a good plan. Thanks, Jack
Yes put the brood frames back in the hives, the bees will take care of them.
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Re: Laying Workers
« Reply #21 on: May 10, 2015, 02:30:55 am »
"Tomorrow", Friday,  has come and gone.  I gave the family with laying workers a nice frame with young brood, some nurse bees and eggs.   I'll follow them up next week and try to remember to report on the results. 
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Re: Laying Workers
« Reply #22 on: May 10, 2015, 09:08:19 am »
When i find a hive with to much drone brood i go fishing 8). They make good bait. :D Jack
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Re: Laying Workers
« Reply #23 on: May 10, 2015, 07:25:55 pm »
Quote from: brooksbeefarm on May 10, 2015, 09:08:19 am
When i find a hive with to much drone brood i go fishing 8). They make good bait. :D Jack

   Indeed!  EXCELLENT bait!
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Re: Laying Workers
« Reply #24 on: May 10, 2015, 07:41:18 pm »
After 5 days, the hives have combined. I checked in the lower box and the original queen is still laying. I didn't check in the upper box to see if there is still a laying worker.  Something tells me that there probably is. It will be interesting to see what happens.
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Re: Laying Workers
« Reply #25 on: May 10, 2015, 09:28:52 pm »
The most successful way I have found to deal with a laying worker is to use a queen introduction frame.   Many others have had great success as well.  The details and links to other successes can be found here ->  http://www.beemaster.com/forum/index.php?topic=39947.0

Perhaps it is time for Karma here as well (see link above,  or check out my next post for details)
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Re: Laying Workers
« Reply #26 on: May 14, 2015, 06:15:41 pm »
Here is an update: 4 more days later I checked the hives again today. They were in 3 full sized boxes. After checking frames, there were enough empty frames to allow me to take everything to two boxes. That's the good news. As I went through the hive I didn't see any eggs. This hive is supposed to have a queen in it. That's why I combined. I did see some capped worker brood, but I also saw about 4 to 6 queen cups with something in them. I decided to close it up and wait. This hive tries and tries to make something happen. They just can't seem to get their act together.
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