Today is 11 days since I put the Italian Queens I ordered from R Weaver into the hives after my very bad incident with defensive bees. I think I went overboard, though - really only the colony that requeened recently is aggressive, the others were normal, and they had been thriving and I was so proud of getting them in shape after catching/cutting out.
I checked today, and the aggressive hive had "Snot" or "Milk Brood" - thanks Dave - as did one of the other hives. The third hive, which had been blameless, now has 3 beautiful queen peanuts! And they might go out and mate with some other mean bees!
Any suggestions on what to do? I don't have a lot of spare bee boxes. I am thinking 1) order a new queen and mash the peanuts when she gets here (probably a couple days), 2) Order a new queen and put the frame with the peanuts into a cardboard nuc and fix them up later with a real box, requeening if necessary, 3) Give the frame with the peanuts to my neighbor who has lent me his extractor so often, and who has an empty hive, and order myself a new queen (this puts the risk of Devil Spawn bees on him, I know.)
I checked today, and the aggressive hive had "Snot" or "Milk Brood" - thanks Dave - as did one of the other hives. The third hive, which had been blameless, now has 3 beautiful queen peanuts! And they might go out and mate with some other mean bees!
Any suggestions on what to do? I don't have a lot of spare bee boxes. I am thinking 1) order a new queen and mash the peanuts when she gets here (probably a couple days), 2) Order a new queen and put the frame with the peanuts into a cardboard nuc and fix them up later with a real box, requeening if necessary, 3) Give the frame with the peanuts to my neighbor who has lent me his extractor so often, and who has an empty hive, and order myself a new queen (this puts the risk of Devil Spawn bees on him, I know.)