Update on laying workers and requeening little hive 8/17/18

After much research, here's what I did to try to rectify the laying worker hive situation described in previous post. The goal is to try to save the hive. Otherwise it's a goner.

• One by one, I moved the two deeps and one super from Hive 1 that has laying workers over to the pond side of the house and brushed every bee off each frame.
• I took Hive #2 and moved it into the spot where Hive #1 was...the point of this is to try to confuse the bees - you don't want those egg-dropping drones to find their way back to the hive. You want to break up their rhythm.
• Meanwhile I found a source to obtain a queen from Jeff Cunningham out in Westminster which I have  just put into Hive 2 where there is no queen...and no laying workers yet so I was anxious to get a queen in there.
• NOTE: that hive has a lot of honey so when I release the queen in 4 days, I will add two frames of drawn comb for her to begin laying eggs...if all goes well of course.
• Once she's laying eggs, I will then add a layer of newspaper over Hive1 and then add one or both deeps from Hive2 on top of the newspaper.  (I may decide to consolidate two deeps into one to remove some drone comb as needed)
• Eventually the bees will merge into one stronger hive with a queen.
• I will remove the one super and extract that honey and not put it back on.
• Then I will treat Hive 2 for varroa after super comes off by adding two strips per deep
• Hive 1 will need to have their apistrips removed in mid September which I'll note on my calendar