I’m completely queenless in my hive and there are a reasonably healthy number of bees. They swarmed about a month ago and there is no brood for that I can see.
I’d like to buy a laying queen and introduce and am familiar with the techniques introduce here slowly.
The question I have is will the introduction be affected by the type of bees in the hive? Presumably most of them will be flying bees now with far less nurse bees and if they are then presented with eggs, will they look after them?!!
I have seen techniques where the flying bees are separated from the nurse bees during the introduction just to make sure she is accepted a little better. If like to do this but concerned that the hive has a lot of flying bees and not many nurse bees. In case the question comes, I don’t have any other viable hives to play around with
I’d like to buy a laying queen and introduce and am familiar with the techniques introduce here slowly.
The question I have is will the introduction be affected by the type of bees in the hive? Presumably most of them will be flying bees now with far less nurse bees and if they are then presented with eggs, will they look after them?!!
I have seen techniques where the flying bees are separated from the nurse bees during the introduction just to make sure she is accepted a little better. If like to do this but concerned that the hive has a lot of flying bees and not many nurse bees. In case the question comes, I don’t have any other viable hives to play around with