Author Topic: joining hives (Read 2850 times)

TwT · « **on:** May 01, 2005, 04:28:39 pm »

I got a feral hive to weeks ago and the queen was killed before I extracted the hive from the house, it had 2 queen cells and they where damaged, so i put a frame of eggs and brood in this hive almost 3 weeks ago and checked to day and no queen cells have been made and no eggs at all, so I combined them with the newpaper method and was wondering if I did right or did I mess up? the hive (queenless hive) only had about 4 frames of bee's.

Kirk-o · « **Reply #1 on:** May 01, 2005, 04:51:34 pm »

hey buddy you did the right thing
kirk-0

Horns Pure Honey · « **Reply #2 on:** May 01, 2005, 05:21:16 pm »

I think you did the right thing, it is unlikely to find a queen for sale right now, bye :D

Michael Bush · « **Reply #3 on:** May 02, 2005, 10:03:20 am »

If they didn't try to build queen cells and they've only been queenless a short time, then they probably had a virgin queen who wasn't laying yet. If you waited another week you probably would have seen some eggs.

Now that you combined the bees will sort it all out.