I now have moved the frames from the nuc that I had on the post style hive stand into a nuc I made last week. So to recap. I screwed up. I was leaving for two weeks and put a hive top feeder on blocks near the new split with the queen that came out of one of the original hives, and the weak split in the nuc. I didn?t have enough feeders to go around, so I figured I would offer free choice feeding, you know, like they are cows or something. I imagine a feeding frenzy ensued. And that probably turned into a robbing situation between the four hives.
Looks like the split with the slate top got robbed out. Nothing but some scant bees and dry comb. They absconded and took over the weak nuc next to it. The queen started laying some and seems at home. I dumped the robbed out hive and put everything away. The bees bearded on the nuc and were all inside it by nightfall. This morning a got up early and trapped them in the nuc, added the dry drawn comb from the robbed hive and took them for a drive to give them a change of scenery. Several miles separated and Mason Jar top feeders should give them something to put in those empty frames since the stores had almost been depleted also. I?ll let them get some brood going and sugar water honey before I retrieve them back to my house.
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