how long will brood last?

[rober]

I removed a hive from a fallen limb yesterday. vacuumed as many as I could & removed all the comb & disposed of the limb. I rubber banded some comb with brood into a couple of frames & put those into a nuc. I also put a recently used queen cage & some lemon grass oil into the nuc & left it to attract stragglers & foragers. took the colony home & hived it. went back after dark , sealed, & brought the nuc home. there were a lot of bees in the box & I did not see any on the ground so I think I got most of the stragglers. left the nuc overnight & added those bees & brood to the new hive. so 12 hours later was it a waste of time adding that brood to the already hived colony? how long will brood last without good coverage by nurse bees? note-it's also unseasonably cool here this week. it got down into the 60's last night.

[GSF]

This won't answer your question, and it didn't get down in the 60's; The 4th of July weekend I did a cutout down in Monkeytown. (Montgomery). I put them in a box with brood/larva/comb, eggs, rubber banded as well. The next morning all of the bees were in the top of the (2 8f med) hive. The top box didn't have any frames. That evening when I came home from work I took the screen off so they could start orienting. They all oriented to the top of a tree. Anyway to make a long story longer, when I re-hived them in the same box they were content.

They ended up chunking the larva out the front door but the capped brood wasn't chunked. My conclusion is; I still don't know squat about bees. :-D