I have had a new package of bees (april 23 hive date) that refuses queens. They have been given 3 now and each one rejected. Each one was let out by the candy method. The last one was installed saturday before last and today she was not present nor were any eggs or brood. All my other hives are doing great. I had made a couple of splits off of some other packages and they are all doing great. So today I took a split made saturday before last (they accepted their queen great and she is a laying fool) and I did a combine with thhis queeless hive via the paper method. The split nuc I put it into a regular hive and put it on bottom then a sheet of newspaper with slits and then the old queenless hive. Did I do the right thing? Will they kill this queen also? How long until I can check them?
Thank you
Wayne
Thank you
Wayne