How to Unite Beehives - How to Combine Beehives - Merging Bees for Winter - Combining Beehives 

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

Havn’t got to see anyone doing this yet, thank you

I'm about to merge a weak colony with another that has one of your (2022) queen's. Fingers crossed it's successful.

Great timing, have to do this to 2 of my colonies tomorrow 👍

Thanks, very helpful as always. Peter

excellent - this is what i did last week, minus the queen excluder bit (i'll remember this for next year)- off tomorrow to see what the result is

I use the double screen board. Also if you use the paper, it is good to spray it with some alcohol to beat strange pheromone smell.

Queens you don’t kill, but discard sounds more reflective

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?

Just find a bus waiting at a bus stop, or visit a railway station and grab a couple of Metro newspapers. Free papers!

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?

Did you leave the entrance open for the top box with queen in

Why is there a drone laying queen if she is newly born? Also why do use queen excluder when combining the hive?

Hi, I'm about to merge my queenless colony to my hive with a new queen that's laying well. Do I put my queenless hive on top or bottom?

Hey Laurence 🫡 could you use a small mesh screen, in place of the newspaper? Leave in place for 24-48hours and then remove. Thank 😊

Don't know if I missed info on the time of day to do a combine, does it matter?

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?

Henry 8th

I have a queen less hive and a strong hive..how do I combine in that situation