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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => HONEYBEE REMOVAL => Topic started by: Banjeezie on May 05, 2016, 01:35:23 pm

Title: No Time
Post by: Banjeezie on May 05, 2016, 01:35:23 pm

Newbie here. I tried to do my first cut out and only had time to remove some of the bees and some of the comb.  I have had that group of bees at my house for a week today and can finally return to collect the rest of the comb and colony.  I have inspected the portion at my house (which seem to be working and doing their thing just fine) and cannot locate a queen.  So when I go back and if I find the queen and everything goes well, can I combine them back together without them fighting or anything?

Title: Re: No Time
Post by: Psparr on May 05, 2016, 02:05:17 pm

Can do a newspaper combine. Will be fine.

Title: Re: No Time
Post by: Banjeezie on May 05, 2016, 02:20:44 pm

 :wink:

Title: Re: No Time
Post by: cao on May 05, 2016, 09:21:23 pm

Welcome.  If they are queenless and haven't started making on of their own,  they should accept the other bees.  But a newspaper combine would be safer and only takes a couple of sheets of newspaper. :wink:

Title: Re: No Time
Post by: Banjeezie on May 09, 2016, 10:03:13 am

So I put the newspaper and put the queenless hive on top.  I'm not sure exactly how to tell if they started making a queen of their own or not, but I checked after 24 hours and the paper was not torn at all so I put a little slit in it like I have seen suggested in other posts.  Will check again in a couple of days.