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Offline van from Arkansas

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Re: Adding bees to a slow or failing hive
« Reply #40 on: May 05, 2019, 07:27:43 pm »
HP, thanks for the video!!  Question:

Do you experience bees in the stronger lower colony relocating honey from the upper weaker colony?  Sorta like robbing.

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Adding bees to a slow or failing hive
« Reply #41 on: May 05, 2019, 11:07:54 pm »
The bees do restructure the resources as the two nests merge.  No, I would not say they rob any box.  It is more a matter of their reorganizing of the contents to most efficiently support the combined brood nest.

The point and the perspective to take is, after a few days the setup is no longer two colonies.  It is one colony, one nest, managed as one, resourced as one. It just so happens to have a queen at each end of it.
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When the lid goes back on, the bees will spend the next 3 days undoing most of what the beekeeper just did to them.
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