queenless

His plan is to combine our two queenless hives with the addition of a mail order queen.

Dave Snyder: Uncommon Ground Rooftop Farm Update: Week 4 2010

His plan is to combine our two queenless hives with the addition of a mail order queen.

Dave Snyder: Uncommon Ground Rooftop Farm Update: Week 4 2010

"If it's not a queen egg," D'vin continued, "and Garirth dies, then we'll be queenless, like Igen."

Dragon's Fire McCaffrey, Anne 2006

Through selective breeding, it is possible to create queenless "anarchist hives" where the sisters do it for themselves.

Boing Boing 2003

In a queenless hive no life is left though to a superficial glance it seems as much alive as other hives.

War and Peace 2003

The bees circle round a queenless hive in the hot beams of the midday sun as gaily as around the living hives; from a distance it smells of honey like the others, and bees fly in and out in the same way.

War and Peace 2003

It was empty in the sense that a dying queenless hive is empty.

War and Peace 2003

In the meantime being queenless they will be busy with raising queen cells on the two frames of brood.

Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 Various

Bees that were queenless late in the fall or bees that had an old queen who stopped laying very early in the season, will have only few and old bees for wintering and will not have vitality enough to survive.

Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 Various

Or, if this is not done the queenless colony may merge with another that has a queen.

The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays Laura Lee Hope