Uniting queen back

[jamster1981]

Hi

One of my colonies made queen cells so I moved the queen to a nuc with some bees. I removed cells from the original colony until no more could be made and I now wish to unite the queen back. She will go ontop of the existing brood box. Is that okay? I also have 3 supers on the hive, would I need to use a clearer board first or can I use a piece of newspaper top and bottom of the brood box. Thanks

 

[Erichalfbee]

They are quite likely to make swarm preps again fairly quickly. You need to give them another go at raising a queen so take a frame of young brood and eggs from the nuc you made ( swap a frame of emerging brood). Return in a week and remove all the emergency cells then unite over newspaper

 

[Erichalfbee]

Uniting over the supers is generally no problem