Beekeepers: could I get some advice?
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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Laying workers only lay drones, because they're not mated, and without fertilization you get drones.
There's good photos of what drone cells look like online, like this one: http://www.bees-on-the-net.com/queen-drone-and-worker-cells.html
The drone cells are domed, the worker cells are flat like honey cells.
Seems like it might be good to find a bee club to get in touch with lots of people who know bee stuff. I don't know what this group is like: http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Beekeepers-Club/
There seems to be a fairly established club in my area, which I'm looking forward to going to Saturday.
There's also web forums:
http://www.beesource.com/forums/forum.php
http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php
http://www.biobees.com/forum
Looking forward to hearing how things go with your hive.
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