laying workers?

Started by bobby, April 07, 2005, 09:50:24 PM

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Michael Bush

>If you had a laying worker hive and placed a screen over it then placed another hive with a good queen over it, would her presence eventually surpress the laying workers.

No, but the pheromones from the open brood would.  The queen is irrelevant.

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