I have a laying worker colony now & am trying to decide what to do. This video is the best, & most real/honest, video on dealing with a laying worker colony that I've seen! Very helpful. Thank you!
I have done both the newspaper and just putting them together with out the newspaper and both work well. If the hives are bigger I always use the newspaper to give them extra time to get acquainted. Great video.
It was just recommended to me to move a healthy queen-right colony in the middle of the day while the foragers are out. Then put my laying worker hive in that spot so when the foragers come back they will seek out the laying workers and kill them. I would also need to drop a couple of frames of eggs/young brood in so they could then start making a new queen.
Were your previous experiences with laying workers incorporated into a larger queen right colony? I'm wondering if the bottom colony isn't big enough to properly take on the laying workers and get rid of them.
This colony turned out fine but typically I would like to have combined with a larger QR colony. If you watch some of my videos after this one I provide an update on this colony. Thanks for watching!
I would have shaken them out evenly in the apiary and they all go in somewhere. Not worth saving the old bees that are close to death anyways. Pull out those entrance reducers so they can properly cool the hive during summer months. Feed them until they have 3 or 4 frames worth of food before robbing becomes a issue during your dearth.
Interesting idea on the shake out. I keep my entrances reduced all year around. I use screen bottom boards along with entrances to supers and rarely have bearding issues. Plenty of ventilation throughout the hives. I used to play around with various entrance sizes throughout the year and found it mostly moot. Happy beekeeping!
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I have a laying worker colony now & am trying to decide what to do. This video is the best, & most real/honest, video on dealing with a laying worker colony that I've seen! Very helpful. Thank you!
Thank you so much for the kind comment! I’m glad it has helped you!! Keep me posted on your colony and I hope they get themselves sorted out.
Just walk them out 100 yards and shake them out.. good bees fly back.. ones laying just crawl around
I have done both the newspaper and just putting them together with out the newspaper and both work well. If the hives are bigger I always use the newspaper to give them extra time to get acquainted. Great video.
Thanks for sharing, appreciate the feedback!
It was just recommended to me to move a healthy queen-right colony in the middle of the day while the foragers are out. Then put my laying worker hive in that spot so when the foragers come back they will seek out the laying workers and kill them. I would also need to drop a couple of frames of eggs/young brood in so they could then start making a new queen.
I’ve never heard of this method before. If you try it please let me know how it works. Best of luck!
So you mess up your good colony trying to fix something not worth fixing
Jerome bee farm doesn't use an excluder he just uses the news paper
Both can and do work!
The bee is called a cape honeybee .
Were your previous experiences with laying workers incorporated into a larger queen right colony? I'm wondering if the bottom colony isn't big enough to properly take on the laying workers and get rid of them.
This colony turned out fine but typically I would like to have combined with a larger QR colony. If you watch some of my videos after this one I provide an update on this colony. Thanks for watching!
I would have shaken them out evenly in the apiary and they all go in somewhere. Not worth saving the old bees that are close to death anyways. Pull out those entrance reducers so they can properly cool the hive during summer months. Feed them until they have 3 or 4 frames worth of food before robbing becomes a issue during your dearth.
Interesting idea on the shake out. I keep my entrances reduced all year around. I use screen bottom boards along with entrances to supers and rarely have bearding issues. Plenty of ventilation throughout the hives. I used to play around with various entrance sizes throughout the year and found it mostly moot. Happy beekeeping!
They are quiet because they think they have a queen because of the brood pheromone
Today I got 2 new nuc I other 2 nuc one had a queen but not fertile queen she's other died in cage i fix it
Sorry to hear.