Showing posts with label combining hives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label combining hives. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Combining hives update

It has been a little more then a week since I combined the queenless split with the other split I made from Demeter.  It looks like all went well.  I saw brood where there was none in the queenless split and didn't see much in the way of a fight when the two hives met.  All that was left of the paper I used to separate the two is the rim of paper that was between the two boxes.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Combining hives

I tried 3 times to get the queenless split up and going by providing eggs w/o any success.  Yesterday I went to look again and they were anxious and no signs of a queen cell so I added them to the other split I made from Demeter using the newspaper method.  I added two sheets of packing paper on top of the split w/ the queen made a few small slashes w/ my hive tool then added both boxes of the queenless hive.  I wanted to just add the deep, but there was still so many bees that I put the medium on as well.  I then put the inner cover on and an empty super (just to make the top entrance easier) then the outer cover.