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moldy brood
I'm desperately trying to keep alive my first and only colony that was queenless long enough to develop laying workers. They've accepted a new queen at the cost of the majority of house bees which I shook out away from the hive. The drone brood that the workers were raising died and are contaminating the comb - foundationless modified Warre frames. The whole colony might be 100 bees - now housed in an observation hive in my dining room; they lack the numbers to clean up and raise brood and forage and draw new comb. I suspect I'll lose the whole colony in the end, anyway, but I'd like to give it my best go.
Will it hurt them to leave the dead brood? Will it help them if I remove it for them?
I'm desperately trying to keep alive my first and only colony that was queenless long enough to develop laying workers. They've accepted a new queen at the cost of the majority of house bees which I shook out away from the hive. The drone brood that the workers were raising died and are contaminating the comb - foundationless modified Warre frames. The whole colony might be 100 bees - now housed in an observation hive in my dining room; they lack the numbers to clean up and raise brood and forage and draw new comb. I suspect I'll lose the whole colony in the end, anyway, but I'd like to give it my best go.
Will it hurt them to leave the dead brood? Will it help them if I remove it for them?