need fast help ????

shan · May 19, 2008, 08:15:43 PM

help, can frozen brood be thawed by the bees and hatch??? i know this sounds dumb but i froze about 4 frames of brood from my hot hive i killed off and after 2 or 3 days in the freezer i stuck the frames in a deep and put them ontop of the deep my bees are in, today i look in and see fresh white larve/pupa? all over the deeps i put in, is it posable for the eggs or larva to survive in the freezer??? i dont want to be hatching out any hot bees again....thanks

MrILoveTheAnts · May 19, 2008, 08:25:09 PM

Freezer should have easily killed them.

shan · May 19, 2008, 09:56:34 PM

Quote from: MrILoveTheAnts on May 19, 2008, 08:25:09 PM
Freezer should have easily killed them.

thanks, that is what i thought, but i just wanted to check.... dont want no more hot bees :)

Moonshae · May 19, 2008, 11:04:54 PM

If you have hot bees, killing the workers isn't really your problem, replacing the queen who is laying the hot brood is a more important issue.

Michael Bush · May 19, 2008, 11:08:13 PM

In my experience requeening a hot hive quite often instantly calms them down. That, of course, would indicate it's not just genetics or that the queen is more involved in the issue than people like to admit. My guess is that it's a waste of brood.

shan · May 19, 2008, 11:26:12 PM

Quote from: Moonshae on May 19, 2008, 11:04:54 PM
If you have hot bees, killing the workers isn't really your problem, replacing the queen who is laying the hot brood is a more important issue.

I had a hive that was very hot and i had to get rid of them... these frames of brood were from the hot hive, these are "new" bees i bought. thanks

shan · May 19, 2008, 11:34:20 PM

Quote from: Michael Bush on May 19, 2008, 11:08:13 PM
In my experience requeening a hot hive quite often instantly calms them down. That, of course, would indicate it's not just genetics or that the queen is more involved in the issue than people like to admit. My guess is that it's a waste of brood.

i didnt want to take the time to see,i know thatsounds bad but i have small children living next door to me and these things were attacking anything that moved (almost anything) and i didnt want to take the chance of the little ones getting hurt....thanks

PS: if i had a place to move them i would have moved them just for the work and experance of "fixing" the hive....