best way to re-unite with a super in the way?

[jeff33]

I have a queenless colony (5 weeks since AS) and no sign of a queen or any brood. I want to re-unite with a queenright colony but there is a super with uncapped honey and lots of bees on top of queenless BB. Shall I just do the newspaper trick over the super and in a week or so shift queenright BB below the super or is there another way? Top entrance should face the other way?Thanks

 

[Finman]

I just pile them together.
Take a nice day that bees have time to find new place of entrances.
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[Erichalfbee]

Put the colony with the super on top.
Consolidate the brood boxes after you see newspaper under the omf

 

[Madge]

I have a queenless colony (5 weeks since AS) ...

Did you check whether they're queenless with a test frame?

 

[oliver90owner]

MC has brought up the most important point. Many just put good queens in to be slaughtered by the one that should have been temoved.

 

[JWF]

If there was a queen who was off lay in the apparently Q- part, what would happen if there was a QX put between the two BB? Would the colonies fight due to the presence of a Q in each one?

 

[enrico]

Forget the newspaper and just give a quick squirt of air freshener between the box's as you put them together
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[Tim.S]

Forget the newspaper and just give a quick squirt of air freshener between the box's as you put them together
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Any particular brand Enrico? I worry that in this digital age my source of newspaper will dry up!

 

[jeff33]

Any particular brand Enrico? I worry that in this digital age my source of newspaper will dry up!

I used to put the Independent. ..Iam now struggling to fit my pc screen in between bb's!

 

[jeff33]

Did you check whether they're queenless with a test frame?

Yes MC, they started drawing QC.

 

[enrico]

I use vanilla, wouldn't advise using almond!
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[Hebeegeebee]

Test frame first.
If queenless, then I would newspaper over the super and put the queenless lot on top. Move brood box down a week later.

 

[Madge]

I have a queenless colony (5 weeks since AS) and no sign of a queen or any brood. I want to re-unite with a queenright colony but there is a super with uncapped honey and lots of bees on top of queenless BB. Shall I just do the newspaper trick over the super and in a week or so shift queenright BB below the super or is there another way? Top entrance should face the other way?Thanks

You've established the colony is queenless - so, yes, if it's too difficult (too heavy) to move the queenless colony consisting of a brood box and a super on top of the queen-right colony, then I think it's ok to move the queen-right colony on top of the queenless one, and sort out a week later. That's what I would have done. If anybody knows of a reason why not to, then I should like to hear it as well.

I don't understand your question about the top entrance because with the newspaper method there is only one entrance - the one at the bottom. The bees at the top have to gnaw their way through the newspaper to get out. (Or you can use the air-freshener method as mentioned by others.)