Dear Highness
Queen,
Perhaps you
can
help me. It is
early March
and
I am
concerned
about a hive
of
my bees. I have
found my
queen
in the top
box.
She was
marked
green. But I saw
only a few
larva,
some brood,
not a solid
egg
pattern and
so
so many painfully
small drones.
Should I
replace
her with
someone
younger? Is she
worn
out? What
should I
do? I was
thinking I
could buy
a virgin or a
mated
queen. Will I risk
disease?
Worried in
the Apiary,
James
Dear James,
This is an
interesting
question. What you
have is a
drone-laying
queen! Kill her.
The hive
needs a virgin
or a fully mated
queen.
The Queen
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