In short, my hive went queenless and it wasn't caught in time before the hive dwindled. I tried to introduce a new queen, and evidently she wasn't accepted because I can find no brood, eggs, or larvae after 14 days.
I checked for drone cells (laying worker) and found at most five drone cells in the whole hive (Probably dead brood, haven't been torn down?). You definitely have to look HARD to even find a drone cell.
I'm perplexed as to what might be going on here. I'm going to give up on this hive. I'm at my wits end.
I was thinking about doing a newspaper combine with a VERY healthy hive. I was going to work all the bees into a single deep and then put the deep onto the healthy hive. HOWEVER, I don't want to screw the healthy hive up. For example, what if they kill the queen since they evidently killed my introduced queen.
Any advise would be greatly appreciated. What would you do?
TIA,
Ken
I checked for drone cells (laying worker) and found at most five drone cells in the whole hive (Probably dead brood, haven't been torn down?). You definitely have to look HARD to even find a drone cell.
I'm perplexed as to what might be going on here. I'm going to give up on this hive. I'm at my wits end.
I was thinking about doing a newspaper combine with a VERY healthy hive. I was going to work all the bees into a single deep and then put the deep onto the healthy hive. HOWEVER, I don't want to screw the healthy hive up. For example, what if they kill the queen since they evidently killed my introduced queen.
Any advise would be greatly appreciated. What would you do?
TIA,
Ken