Yesterday I checked one of my hives and I have a couple of questions.
I have a 10 frame deep brood box with 2 medium supers(9 frames) and no queen excluder.
The deep brood box looked good with a tight brood pattern, plenty of eggs and capped larvae. Tons of pollen and some honey. I found the queen in this box.
Box # 2 had honey stored in outside frames but frames 3,4,5,6,& 7 were ALL Drone brood (looked like a classic case of a laying worker)
Box #3 had honey on the outer frames but fresh laid eggs, larvae and capped brood in the middle frames.
I saw no queen cells in the hive.
The girls were extremely aggressive but are normally gentle. weather was sunny 75*
I last checked this hive about 4 weeks ago with no problems found...
The queen doesn't appear to be failing but I'm baffled about all the frames of Drone brood.
My questions are: DO I have a problem such as a failing queen or a laying worker(or both)?
Do I cull all this Drone brood or let it be?
I have a 10 frame deep brood box with 2 medium supers(9 frames) and no queen excluder.
The deep brood box looked good with a tight brood pattern, plenty of eggs and capped larvae. Tons of pollen and some honey. I found the queen in this box.
Box # 2 had honey stored in outside frames but frames 3,4,5,6,& 7 were ALL Drone brood (looked like a classic case of a laying worker)
Box #3 had honey on the outer frames but fresh laid eggs, larvae and capped brood in the middle frames.
I saw no queen cells in the hive.
The girls were extremely aggressive but are normally gentle. weather was sunny 75*
I last checked this hive about 4 weeks ago with no problems found...
The queen doesn't appear to be failing but I'm baffled about all the frames of Drone brood.
My questions are: DO I have a problem such as a failing queen or a laying worker(or both)?
Do I cull all this Drone brood or let it be?