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<blockquote data-quote="Alastair" data-source="post: 11707" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>Not possible to tell from the pic if she is mated or not. Queens that did not mate correctly and have now passed the time window can look exactly like that, also some mated queens can look exactly like that.</p><p></p><p>The issue here is you have merged a number of hives, one of them queenless. It is possible the queenless one had laying workers and one of the others had a newly laying queen, and all this is now combined. But as no dates are given it is impossible to know if your hive still has some laying workers and also a laying queen. Or, if that queen has only just mated and is about to start laying eggs.</p><p></p><p>We need some more clues which would be photos of the brood, and the date the hive she was produced in swarmed (if known), and the date of the merge. Also is there any worker brood at all.</p><p></p><p>About all the adult drones, swarmed hives can have a very high ratio of drones to workers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alastair, post: 11707, member: 13"] Not possible to tell from the pic if she is mated or not. Queens that did not mate correctly and have now passed the time window can look exactly like that, also some mated queens can look exactly like that. The issue here is you have merged a number of hives, one of them queenless. It is possible the queenless one had laying workers and one of the others had a newly laying queen, and all this is now combined. But as no dates are given it is impossible to know if your hive still has some laying workers and also a laying queen. Or, if that queen has only just mated and is about to start laying eggs. We need some more clues which would be photos of the brood, and the date the hive she was produced in swarmed (if known), and the date of the merge. Also is there any worker brood at all. About all the adult drones, swarmed hives can have a very high ratio of drones to workers. [/QUOTE]
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