I heard some people say that when you shake bees off of a frame that you are killing brood. any truth to this?
how? maybe if you shake it hard enough to shake the brood out, or you bang the frame to get the bees off......
just asking. I would think you'd have to shake them really hard to kill brood. this was something a speaker brought up at a bee meeting.
I'm asking because since the queen from that small cut-out made her way home I want to add some bees from another hive to that cut-out.
If you are concerned brush them off with a turkey feather into the hive.
That is the way package producer put packages together. They shake them to a box. If it were killing brood they would not do it. It is their lively-hood.