Queenless hive test. This is one quick way to see how the hive reacts to a new queen if you suspect it is #queenless. These poor girls have been without a queen for too long, see how they all naturally march toward her once they smell her pheromone. This hive will be saved and brought back to strength with a new queen. If you have a hive with no eggs and no sealed brood, it means that you will have nothing more than what you have. Each day, your hive will become smaller in number because without emerging brood the older bees will die. If you have no brood at all, sealed or unsealed, then you have an emergency and must get a queen as quickly as possible. Every day counts. Your hive is a mere 30 days away from total collapse. There are many signs and indicators of a queenless hive; no eggs, a loud or noisy hive, a laying worker, excessive drone brood to name a few. Make sure you learn all the indicators of a queenless hive so that you can spot them early and avoid losing your bees.
