You may have something with the propolis trap idea. I used to make double screen boards with one screen of a mosquito mesh. Than when I needed to combine i would remove the bigger mesh and leave the mosquito one for two days and later combine without problems. It's the same thing. But it wasn't with a laying worker.. you never know with those. These days if its spring flow l just spread the 10 framer out and put the nuck in. No paper or anything.. just some spray bottle on them all. But only in spring and the flow
I have some that are 12 frames of bees, those are the ones that hurt. I also re queened some that still had a queen coming back. some queens have been real late this year
Oh ya I see, the nuc can grow and stop the laying worker over time. Plus over time that worker will die and if you have the nuc up above they shouldn't make a new one.🤔Right I think I have that right?
You may have something with the propolis trap idea. I used to make double screen boards with one screen of a mosquito mesh. Than when I needed to combine i would remove the bigger mesh and leave the mosquito one for two days and later combine without problems. It's the same thing. But it wasn't with a laying worker.. you never know with those.
These days if its spring flow l just spread the 10 framer out and put the nuck in. No paper or anything.. just some spray bottle on them all. But only in spring and the flow
I may have done more of that, just combining them, if that was a stronger nuc .
I've wasted lots of resources trying to fix laying workers, but this one just started so maybe we'll get away with it
had laying workers for the first time this year... It was such a sad little cluster I just moved em to a queenright hive.
I have some that are 12 frames of bees, those are the ones that hurt. I also re queened some that still had a queen coming back. some queens have been real late this year
Oh ya I see, the nuc can grow and stop the laying worker over time. Plus over time that worker will die and if you have the nuc up above they shouldn't make a new one.🤔Right I think I have that right?
That's the plan, we'll see if it works