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.
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
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.
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