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Title: hive in tree...maybe i made a mistake...any ideas?
Post by: justtryintolearnhere on August 10, 2005, 04:08:09 AM
my brother and i just today went into a fallen tree full of rot and there was a nice hive inside...we took ebuff comb filled with honey and some capped brood. there were also eggs and larvae... i have a large hive that is doing well ...we are in the middle of a huge cotton blooming period....i take it thats a major nectar flow? so im hoping they will have time to strenghten... we wired the comb into frames.   all of it filled 5 deep brood frames, thats counting the honey and capped brood and eggs and larvae...i was thinking in the morning i would take 2 frames of my thriving hive along with nurse bees and place those 2 frames in with the ones we took from tree and in 2 or 3 days add a queen...any advice here??? im hoping i havent ruined the treehive...i placed a nuc by the tree with combs of honey hoping to lure the ones in tree out...answers anyone? lead me in the right path here any advice wud be appreciated
Title: hive in tree...maybe i made a mistake...any ideas?
Post by: Michael Bush on August 10, 2005, 12:58:22 PM
If you remove all the comb from the tree then they will probably stay in your hive.  If not, they will not move out of the tree.