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Comment by Paul McCarty on October 31, 2012 at 9:14pm

I had 4 laying worker hives this year. I get them in my nucs all the time. I don't always shake them out. Most of the time just doing a newspaper combine with a queen-right nuc will fix it all up. Really all you have to do in most cases is put in three brood frames with a queen in the middle and normally they will straighten out.

Shaking out only works for me if I have a queen-right hive sitting in place of the old - and that is hazardous to the queen in that hive due to the bum-rush of bees.

I have lately been using a re-queening frame - like the one you get from brushy mountain. Works like a charm. Takes about a week and a half before you can let her out though.

You have to be careful shaking out hives, because in many cases there is a newly laying queen in them. They lay over and over in the same cells and look very similar to a laying worker hive. I get them doing that all the time. The only way to tell is to leave them be for a little while and see what happens.

A lot of my trap-outs go laying worker.

Comment by Rob Shepler on October 31, 2012 at 5:59pm

I have one in the same shape!

Question for our experts.......Is it necessary to shake out the bees to isolate a laying worker when doing a combine? Will the pheromones of the new queen be enough to overcome the laying worker? Anybody had experience with it?

Thanks!

Comment by James H DAWDY on October 31, 2012 at 4:34pm

Checked the hive I split- lots of drones.  Hmmm.  Bad egg pattern.  No queen, but one queen cell.  Uh oh.  Emergency queen didn't make it, and now I have a laying worker.  Sigh.  Shook out.  Will newspaper combine, because I think it's too late in the year to get a queen hatched and mated.

Comment by Rob Shepler on October 23, 2012 at 7:27am

Cool article.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10/pictures/121011-blu...

Comment by Paul McCarty on October 15, 2012 at 8:16pm

Ooooh, pretty late in the season. Poor bees! Where are they located and when are you talking about doing it?

Comment by Rob Shepler on October 15, 2012 at 8:14pm

The bees that I got from Hobbs. Got a lead on a double wide that is going to be moved soon, the bees must go, want to help?

Comment by Paul McCarty on October 15, 2012 at 8:12pm

They normally eat my comb too. You are also lucky as far as that goes. I bet you still have a queen.

Comment by Paul McCarty on October 15, 2012 at 8:11pm

Rob, you are lucky they didn't bust them up. That's what normally happens to mine. Which bees got it?

Comment by Paul McCarty on October 15, 2012 at 8:06pm

By the way - I am not going to have time to do so many removals next Spring. You guys are gonna' have to step it up. I have three waiting already!

Comment by Rob Shepler on October 15, 2012 at 8:05pm

Funny thing is, they went for my only Langstroth! 22 hives and they pick the Lang. There should be a study. I might have lost my queen, they have been real pissy and aggresive, even after dark when I was running more hot wire. I was working in the dark with my headlamp and JUMPED at every bump in the night.

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