Feeding Sugar Water 1:1

[beepop]

My hive has had alot of problems with laying workers, missing queen, etc. I took a frame of larvae/eggs and put it on the hive. I am feeding them 1:1 each day now. They are taking 2 quarts per day. Does this mean that my original queen is still there and they are taking the water/sugar to draw comb out? Or just feeding/filling cells with it?

[jrbbees]

to know for sure what they are doing with the 1:1 you would have to look in the hive.
be sure to give the hive a new frame of eggs once a week for 3 weeks.
That resolves laying workers and give them what they need to build a new queen.

[beepop]

Thank you for the information. I'll try that for sure.

[Michael Bush]

A queenless hive often makes more honey than a queenright hive. They have no brood to care for so they have more foragers and less expenses. Taking syrup in no way indicates they are or are not queenright.