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Title: shaking bees
Post by: rober on May 31, 2014, 02:38:07 PM
I heard some people say that when you shake bees off of a frame that you are killing brood. any truth to this?
Title: Re: shaking bees
Post by: Kathyp on May 31, 2014, 03:17:50 PM
how?  maybe if you shake it hard enough to shake the brood out, or you bang the frame to get the bees off......
Title: Re: shaking bees
Post by: rober on May 31, 2014, 11:24:46 PM
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.
Title: Re: shaking bees
Post by: sterling on May 31, 2014, 11:41:14 PM
If you are concerned brush them off with a turkey feather into the hive.
Title: Re: shaking bees
Post by: sc-bee on June 01, 2014, 08:30:57 AM
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.