Requeening a hive after losing the queen

I lost the queen some time during the winter and this hive is barely hanging own. I have put a frame of capped brood from another hive to try to keep it going until the queen is accepted.

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[cardioman1999]

Check the candy in the queen cage. If it is fairly soft, make a very small hole through the candy. This time of the year the hive should accept her fairly quickly. Check her in three days and if she has not been released go ahead and release her. Wait a week to ten days after she has been released to see if there is any eggs.

[cardioman1999]

If you have a laying worker the eggs will not be in the bottom of the cell because their abdomen is not as long and many times there will be multiple eggs in one cell. If you do have a laying worker prior to installing the queen, take the whole hive a couple hundred yards away and open it up and shake all the bees out of the hive. Take the hive and set it back up in its original position. The bees will return alot of times without the laying worker.

[aceman4564564]

my queen died then new brood starting popping up but no queen is a worker the new queen is it possible?!?!!?

[sharlenesh1]

WE have a new hive of 6 weeks and no queen as we have no new brood. What about the working bees laying drone eggs, I've read. Did you have any and how can you tell? We have ordered a new queen and will get it on Thursday. Can you suggest anything?