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Last year when I went out to harvest honey from an out apairy much to my surprise I discovered that one of the hives swarmed and is now a drone layer.
I ended up bringing this colony back home where I treated with Miteaway 2 and requeened. The queen took but this colony didn't overwinter well, lots of dead bees and only a handfull of bees and my russian queen. What should I have done? Should I have destroyed all of the sealed drone brood? P.S this happened about mid July.
I ended up bringing this colony back home where I treated with Miteaway 2 and requeened. The queen took but this colony didn't overwinter well, lots of dead bees and only a handfull of bees and my russian queen. What should I have done? Should I have destroyed all of the sealed drone brood? P.S this happened about mid July.