Robbing

[linoleum bonypart]

My first season got a hive and a nuc either side of the garden the larger colony has decided to rob the nuc feeding both
I put mesh over front with entrances at the sides seems to work...sprayed water last night....wondered if swapping hives positions over would help ???

 

[Erichalfbee]

Have you got a mate more than three miles away who could babysit your nuc for three weeks?
A small box shouldn't be much of a problem in a garden somewhere

 

[linoleum bonypart]

Yes got that organised just wondered if anyone had tried moving hives positions ??

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

You're just going to get shedloads of foragers from the strong colony p8iling into your weak nuc - chaos!!

 

[linoleum bonypart]

Yes all ready to move now...think il bob them in a poly nuc while I'm at it...my strong hive the first collected swarmhas taken off now eleven frames of bees though I think apivar has cut the laying off...