Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Mortician bees hard at work

After the combining of the two splits I noticed a large amount of dead bees in front of the hive.  There must have been more of a fight about the combination then I first thought.  It took the mortician bees a couple of weeks to get them all out.  Sorry girls, but after 3 tries to get them to make a queen they were bound to parish if something wasn't done.  I think it was the best solution.

2 comments:

Jared said...

Did you do a newspaper combine? I found that works best for my bees when they need to be combined. It keeps fighting to a minimum as they get used to the smells of the foreign bees before they chew through the paper.

Cassandra said...

I did use newspaper to combine. It turned out ok, just a little ruff.