If you are going to dispose of one queen, do the unite immediately on removing herand do you need to wait until the q- colony is hopelessly queenless or can you unite as soon as you make them queenless?
Would there be queen cells to deal with or do they break through the newspaper before the bees have time to make them?If you are going to dispose of one queen, do the unite immediately on removing her
they'll have broken throughWould there be queen cells to deal with or do they break through the newspaper before the bees have time to make them?
I did this last week with a Q+ nuc adding to a very large Q- colony. The Q- colony had been Q- for 5 days, they had 1 queen cell remaining.Is it possible to unite a large queenless colony with a very small queen right one? For example a full q- bb with a small q+ colony that’s on say 3 frames…
And vice versa?
Don't be too hasty, another couple of weeks you could see eggs in there. I usually start to consider failure after six weeks but I got caught out this year and found eggs after seven weeks.I'm considering doing this but the queenless colony has been without a queen for at least 3 or 4 weeks. (they failed to create a new queen from a capped cell) Is it too late to unite them.? Also, they have been busy making honey and now have 5 supers! Should I reduce the number of supers before uniting, and what in order should I put the supers? I don't really want to shake them out as there are still thousands of quite feisty bees and my other 2 hives are likely to be overwhelmed.
No need to faff and fiddle about, just put the Q+ donor colony on top of the whole setup, ie Q- colony, QX, supers, newspaper,QX, Q+ colony. If the Q+ colony has any supers, then they go right on top.Should I reduce the number of supers before uniting, and what in order should I put the supers
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