Please help me understand what is going on with queenless hive.
This hive came out of winter nice and strong but then queen has vanished. Since April 3rd I've been giving them frames with eggs from another hive, but they not making any queen cells at all. They would just proceed to take care of the brood, with total disregard to the lack of queen. Today I found few eggs in very small spots on 2 frames - single egg in the bottom of each cell. Maybe total of 10 cells with eggs.
Is this a laying worker ?
How to make them start queen cells?
Thanks.
This hive came out of winter nice and strong but then queen has vanished. Since April 3rd I've been giving them frames with eggs from another hive, but they not making any queen cells at all. They would just proceed to take care of the brood, with total disregard to the lack of queen. Today I found few eggs in very small spots on 2 frames - single egg in the bottom of each cell. Maybe total of 10 cells with eggs.
Is this a laying worker ?
How to make them start queen cells?
Thanks.