Thank you, ill be following your steps tomorrow. I have a spring installed nuc still only on 6 frames and a newly mated queen from a june swarm to combine.
Just another reason to have queen excluders handy. Seems like every time I turn around I discover another great way to use this versatile tool. Thanks for sharing
@@richardevans3084, well that is ethanol around 92% and you keep shaking/washing them in. When you spray some alcohol on the paper, that paper absorbing it and becoming softer. Bees scratching it making holes and passing through. They are losing some pheromone scent and mixing with other bees easy.
What colors you guys in England use . In the USA we dont use purple. We use blue .white, yellow, red and green for the diffrent years. Great video and thank you again.
Hello. I've seen some methods including them spraying the frames with vanilla plus sugar water to remove the pheromone of the bees. Im planning to merge again my failed splits. I cannot afford to lose a hive. I've heard in this video that they might kill the queen right queen?
When you say empty feeders on the top can you elaborate on that.... what are you feeding? How is it set up? Are those empty supers? Do you do this through the winter...?
If you have 2 colonies next to each other that you combine. How do you stop them returning to the old hive ? Will they automatically reorientate after they’ve chewed through the paper?
Is it the same method for combining 2 queen right colonies? I want to combine 2 national singles into one double for winter. Just take one queen away and make up a nuc, do the paper method and the now queenless colony will just accept the new queen? I dont want to cock this up because i got both queens off you😂😂
hello how long would you wait for a newly hatched queen till you say the queen is going to stay a virgin and will not be getting mated, has the queen got a certain time line for mating?
Also the issue is that I have a deep brood box and a medium deep on both hives..I don't want it to be too tall by putting the deep and medium on top of a deep and medium box..does that make sense?