Combining hives with supers

[Do224]

I have a hive with one super on that I want to make queenless and then combine with a nuc I have. Do I just kill the unwanted queen and put newspaper over the super and then put a new bb on top with the nuc inside plus extra frames of foundation?

Basically do I just unite as normal over the super, as if it wasn’t there?

 

[Erichalfbee]

Basically do I just unite as normal over the super, as if it wasn’t there?

Yes

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Do I just kill the unwanted queen and put newspaper over the super and then put a new bb on top with the nuc inside plus extra frames of foundation?

yes

 

[Do224]

Will it matter if there’s not many bees in the super? There’s some moved up there but not many and they haven’t started working it yet. Maybe I should just take it off them since they’ll be getting the second bb…

 

[Erichalfbee]

Will it matter if there’s not many bees in the super? There’s some moved up there but not many and they haven’t started working it yet. Maybe I should just take it off them since they’ll be getting the second bb…

If there is nothing there then take it off.

 

[Amari]

Make sure that you remove the QExcluder!

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Make sure that you remove the QExcluder!

I always leave it in until after the unite and if the queenright colony is on top, I would put it on top of the supers so the queen can't get down.

 

[Erichalfbee]

Yes same here. Take the QX off when combining the colonies.