Post AGPAn9apYCpbPialnc by NormieNorm@bitcoinhackers.org
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 (DIR) Post #AGNyE8nAoJMQjfDKds by Aurelius_17_6_313@bitcoinhackers.org
       2022-02-12T01:49:34Z
       
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       The situation with my starved out #honeybee hive deteriorated further: my #queenbee lost her attendants, she is now the sole survivor. So then, now I am her attendant. She's now in a queen cage that's sitting next to me on my desk. This is far from ideal, but it's better than dead. She's eating, which is good, but I'm going to have to assemble a new crew for her ASAP if there's going to be any chance of her surviving and rebooting her hive.
       
 (DIR) Post #AGPAn9apYCpbPialnc by NormieNorm@bitcoinhackers.org
       2022-02-12T15:45:05Z
       
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       @Aurelius_17_6_313 Sorry to hear. How does one go about getting the queen a new crew?
       
 (DIR) Post #AGPBEip6foi0UtPnou by Aurelius_17_6_313@bitcoinhackers.org
       2022-02-12T15:50:04Z
       
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       @NormieNorm The best way is to introduce her to a queenless hive. You simply place her into the hive inside of a queen cage to protect her (the hive will typically be hostile to her at first), and within a few days the hive will become accustomed to her pheromones and accept her as the queen. Another way is to shake out workers from one colony into a container of some sort, then introduce the queen in a similar fashion, then after a few days move all of them to a new hive box.
       
 (DIR) Post #AGPBRaI3i6QnnU5g6C by Aurelius_17_6_313@bitcoinhackers.org
       2022-02-12T15:52:24Z
       
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       @NormieNorm A third way that I've thought up as an experiment, and this may bet he way I have to do this for lack of opportunities as described above, will be to construct a bee trap and capture foraging workers on the next warm day here. I've got in mind something like a wasp trap that I can bait with a piece of honey comb, and once I've abducted enough workers, I can handle them in a fashion similar to method #2 above.
       
 (DIR) Post #AGPBcRAtwRagiAuxsW by Aurelius_17_6_313@bitcoinhackers.org
       2022-02-12T15:54:21Z
       
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       @NormieNorm The catch is that forager bees are workers that are at the end of their lives and have already passed through the nurse and housekeeper/guard stages of their life cycles, so they may not fulfill those functions within the new hive. That part I don't know, so as the third and experimental option, but also possibly my only option at this time, this may all fail anyway. I'm trying to find a local beekeeper that can hook me up for #1 or #2, that would be best.