I am really upset about this. I just did my 3rd hive inspection. 4 hives installed on april 11th. 1 hive is pretty much dead and that one I wrote off. Now The 3 remaining of the newly installed are all queenless. I checked the first 2, and I see no brood. There were supersedure cells in there last week and most of them are now gone. I checked the 3rd hive and there is tons of capped drone brood. there is a lot of other brood and some of that looks like its getting capped as drone brood as well. I'll assume I have a laying worker in this one. Now I have to find new mated queens and re-queen 3 hives. What if I am mistaken and the original queen is in there still and I introduce a new queen(slow release from cage obviously)? I have one over wintered hive that came out of winter ok but a little weak. I really don't want to sacrifice any resources from that hive. It is my only hive that is doing what it is supposed to be doing. Oh and one of the hives had a queen that was all white but dead. I assume they tried to make a queen and failed (or I failed rather)
I am really upset by all of this and if anyone can please offer me any advice or confirm that re-queening is the best option, please feel free to chime in. As of now, I am going to go fishing to decompress and get my mind off of this as I await good, knowledgeable responses as I normally receive. I can not stress enough that this is the last time I will ever get package bees. Nucs all the way for me from now on. what a pain this has been. thanks in advance for your time and listening to my rant as well. fish on!
todd
I am really upset by all of this and if anyone can please offer me any advice or confirm that re-queening is the best option, please feel free to chime in. As of now, I am going to go fishing to decompress and get my mind off of this as I await good, knowledgeable responses as I normally receive. I can not stress enough that this is the last time I will ever get package bees. Nucs all the way for me from now on. what a pain this has been. thanks in advance for your time and listening to my rant as well. fish on!
todd