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<blockquote data-quote="MCPorirua" data-source="post: 11703" data-attributes="member: 664"><p>I'm a hobbyist with 10+ years of experience and am having a few issues with one of my hives. </p><p></p><p>This hive is a merge from a hive that swarmed multiple times, and one of those swarms (that didn't end up having a laying queen). However this merged hive now has only Drone brood (and plenty of it) and I was thinking Laying Workers but as there so few eggs versus so much drone larva/brood it was hard to tell, just a few eggs to try to use as a clue but they were laid on the side of a cell.</p><p></p><p>However today I spotted this Queen that seems to me to be slightly short/small for laying queen.</p><p></p><p>Can anyone with Queen Rearing experience tell me if this looks like a mated or virgin queen?</p><p></p><p>Now that I've found a Queen in the hive (didn't see her on last 2 inspections) I'm thinking of replacing her (versus not if it was a Laying Worker issue).</p><p></p><p>I'm stumped - Can anybody provide some sage wisdom of identifying this queen?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MCPorirua, post: 11703, member: 664"] I'm a hobbyist with 10+ years of experience and am having a few issues with one of my hives. This hive is a merge from a hive that swarmed multiple times, and one of those swarms (that didn't end up having a laying queen). However this merged hive now has only Drone brood (and plenty of it) and I was thinking Laying Workers but as there so few eggs versus so much drone larva/brood it was hard to tell, just a few eggs to try to use as a clue but they were laid on the side of a cell. However today I spotted this Queen that seems to me to be slightly short/small for laying queen. Can anyone with Queen Rearing experience tell me if this looks like a mated or virgin queen? Now that I've found a Queen in the hive (didn't see her on last 2 inspections) I'm thinking of replacing her (versus not if it was a Laying Worker issue). I'm stumped - Can anybody provide some sage wisdom of identifying this queen? [/QUOTE]
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