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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Breeder of queens Koss" data-source="post: 9666" data-attributes="member: 449"><p>now in your case. If you can't find a virgin queen, take a honeycomb with larvae from another hive and put it in your hive. If bees will grow queen bees, then there is no queen in the hive. (I do not know how legal it is in NZ, because of the danger of transferring AFB, I do not know any other way how a novice can find out the presence of a virgin queen) If it's illegal, then delete my message. After a while, if the bees are not given a queen, the colony will turn brown. Bees themselves will take over the functions of the queen and will lay unfertilized eggs, from which only drones will be born. Such colonies are very difficult to fix.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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