Sunday, September 11, 2011

2011-07-01: Laying Worker in Juno?

[30 second counts Juno 12, 85 Artemis, 30 Blue]
Looked into the "Blue" hive, who maybe named Ceres, had some workers moving up into the second box.
 


Juno had eggs and brood, however many eggs apeared to have been laid porely (on the side of cells or multiple eggs in a cell). Found one queen cell in which a half dozen eggs appear to have been laid into. This is a strong indicator that there is a laying worker. The queen is either doing poorly or has failed/died. Mike Palmer's recomendation was to break up the hive and let the workers fly to the other hives since trying to requeen it will likely fail because of the laying worker.

 

 

 

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