For reasons too boring to get into (been ill, family visited from Europe and so on...) I had a 2-3 week period where I barely was able to look into the hives. One hive I looked at just prior to this gap in monitoring had a lot of drone brood and nothing else. I assumed this to be a laying worker.
Here we are 2-3 weeks later and I am finally in a position to do something about it. Yes, I know I should have done something 2 weeks ago but that is in the rearview mirror now. C'est la vie.
With such a delay I suspect my best course of action is to simply wind it down and let nature take its course? The alternatives are to put open brood in there in the hopes of them creating queen cells or maybe combine with another hive (but that runs the risk of the laying worker affecting the other hive too)?
Any other option I am not thinking of?
I guess the short question is, a laying worker hive 3 weeks down the road. Too late to do anything?
I have some strong hives but I dont want to weaken them to try to save something that can likely not be saved.
Here we are 2-3 weeks later and I am finally in a position to do something about it. Yes, I know I should have done something 2 weeks ago but that is in the rearview mirror now. C'est la vie.
With such a delay I suspect my best course of action is to simply wind it down and let nature take its course? The alternatives are to put open brood in there in the hopes of them creating queen cells or maybe combine with another hive (but that runs the risk of the laying worker affecting the other hive too)?
Any other option I am not thinking of?
I guess the short question is, a laying worker hive 3 weeks down the road. Too late to do anything?
I have some strong hives but I dont want to weaken them to try to save something that can likely not be saved.