Comments on: How do I know if my hive is queenless? http://beespoke.info/2019/07/20/how-do-i-know-if-my-hive-is-queenless/ Information For Humans Beeing Wed, 28 May 2025 07:20:59 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mack http://beespoke.info/2019/07/20/how-do-i-know-if-my-hive-is-queenless/#comment-3636 Sun, 02 Aug 2020 22:03:43 +0000 http://beespoke.info/?p=6127#comment-3636 In reply to Gimlet.

Your last 2 sentences don’t make sense?

]]> By: Gimlet http://beespoke.info/2019/07/20/how-do-i-know-if-my-hive-is-queenless/#comment-3629 Mon, 04 May 2020 08:21:53 +0000 http://beespoke.info/?p=6127#comment-3629 If there is a queen, the bees will stay with her so a clearer board won’t necessarily work. You need to know where she is.
You could shake all the bees into the brood box, making sure you get every single bee, then at least you’d know where to look. Make sure there are no gaps or flaws in the queen excluder, or lumps of wax on the top bars that might warp the excluder making some gaps wider than they should be, before you put it back.
If you still can’t find her – you should add a test frame of young brood and eggs from another hive. If the bees draw cells, they are queenless, if they don’t – they have a queen.

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