tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27329001.post2663646208815467083..comments2024-03-26T12:17:40.771-04:00Comments on Linda's Bees: Still Queenless After All These DaysUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27329001.post-30748434062458266252010-05-22T21:01:38.994-04:002010-05-22T21:01:38.994-04:00craziness - seems like everything is being thrown ...craziness - seems like everything is being thrown at you this year. i understand the feeling of distress and have fingers crossed on the brood frames and new queens.Wendynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27329001.post-56917542114451308802010-05-21T17:10:44.451-04:002010-05-21T17:10:44.451-04:00A new Queen plus young bees = success!A new Queen plus young bees = success!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27329001.post-81933184249950012082010-05-21T11:11:37.945-04:002010-05-21T11:11:37.945-04:00aww :( sorryaww :( sorry♥ Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14591559212770014981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27329001.post-57350666073535409832010-05-20T19:24:36.413-04:002010-05-20T19:24:36.413-04:00Brood pheromone is one of the factors that stimula...Brood pheromone is one of the factors that stimulates foraging, helps the brood get fed, and inhibits worker ovary development....so it would protect the hive from a laying worker, but also putting a frame of brood and eggs in a hive when it is queenless, gives the workers the possibility of creating their own queen as long as the frame has eggs 3 days old or less. As they work on producing a queen, that also is a standard thing to do to prevent the hive from failing. So I write like a bee might think if she were a person, but I'm not oblivious to the science of it.Linda Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08089537760868691562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27329001.post-19164506670598361322010-05-20T13:53:02.334-04:002010-05-20T13:53:02.334-04:00i have just introduced new queens into two of my h...i have just introduced new queens into two of my hives. The advise i got was to leave them chaged in for 5 days before releasing the cork plug. Not sure if its worked yet but ill look for the queens on saturday.Stephen Olnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17124649154639876847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27329001.post-90006857953577513552010-05-20T10:12:29.157-04:002010-05-20T10:12:29.157-04:00"A hive doesn't lose hope (and develop la..."A hive doesn't lose hope (and develop laying workers) if they think there's a chance of a queen."<br /><br />Isn't the development of laying workers regulated by hormones giving off by uncapped brood? Even a queenright colony can develop a huge laying worker problem if the queen is prevented from laying eggs. Of course, a failing queen is usually superseded, but it's important to note that it's not the queen's presence that regulates the development of workers' ovaries, but the presence of uncapped brood.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07019051872455976850noreply@blogger.com