The first effort at combining the laying worker colony with another queen-right weak colony was not successful. Jim and John discuss what to do next and decide to combine the dysfunctional colony with a strong queen-right nucleus colony. This procedure was successful.
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Questions:
- Is it always successful when you combine two colonies?
- Is the newspaper method of combining colonies successful because it gradually joins the two colonies?
- Is it possible to locate a laying worker?