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Thinking ahead and how I could improve this coming season, I was looking at the AS’s I carried out last year and the time I left them before recombining.
So my question is after an AS if you were to recombine, how long would you leave it before doing so?
Would you let them fully raise the new queen? Continue as a new colony for a month or two then look at combining.
Possibly tear down all QC’s so that they become hopelessly Q- and then look to recombine at that point?
Other methods?
There is no desire to permanently increase numbers, obviously selling/donating the surplus bees/queen is an option and is what happened last year.
I guess this is just seeing how some of the old hats would go about satisfying the swarming instinct via an AS and then get them back together as soon as possible to be a strong production colony.
Cheers all
Hex
So my question is after an AS if you were to recombine, how long would you leave it before doing so?
Would you let them fully raise the new queen? Continue as a new colony for a month or two then look at combining.
Possibly tear down all QC’s so that they become hopelessly Q- and then look to recombine at that point?
Other methods?
There is no desire to permanently increase numbers, obviously selling/donating the surplus bees/queen is an option and is what happened last year.
I guess this is just seeing how some of the old hats would go about satisfying the swarming instinct via an AS and then get them back together as soon as possible to be a strong production colony.
Cheers all
Hex