Beekeepers: could I get some advice?

[dietrich]

So, our household got a hive in May this year. We started with a nucleus hive, but we have a theory that the queen died at some point early on, and they had to build up an establish a new one. Or something. Point is, they didn't build up as strong and in as much force as we expected in this first season. We had put a super on; we ended up

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[dietrich]

Cool; thanks.

I think we have a worse problem - possibly an egg-laying worker. So now I'm wondering if it's too late to try and install a new queen...

[dietrich]

We need to look again, but M described what sounds like a patchy brood pattern, and they haven't been building up the way they should have in such a hospitable spring/summer as this has been. Also, they've been fairly irritated whenever we've dealt with them; srakkt has had the same kind of bees before and never found them to be so sting-y as these.

Where do you order new queens from??

[darxus]

I've been babbling at cathijosephine a lot about bees lately. Hoping to build a hive and order bees for the spring. Finally read your bee posts