I am a reborn beekeeper. When I was a young kid, my family had approx. 100 hives in Portugal. I helped care for them and then I had no trouble. Now, add a few decades, and I will not say how many, and I lost all the confidence.
I started with 6 nucs. One of the nucs did not have a queen. I knew it did not because all the combs where loaded with honey and there were no nurse bees or young larvae. I still loaded the nuc thinking I must be wrong. Then I noticed that the hive was very loud for the next two days. I checked for queen and no queen or eggs. I waited another day and then I introduced a new queen. Immediately the hive quite down and they seemed to love the new queen.
The queen is in a cage and my concern is that all the bees in the hive are foragers. No nurse bees. Will introducing a new queen still help?
Thanks