Italians Robbing Russians

[Pond Creek Farm]

I have one hive that I requeened with a Sunkist.  The bees are quite light and identifieable.  I noticed today with our unseasonably warm temperatures that they were robbing a Russian hive I have (this is a grat hive that has made it two winters now).  I have entrances reducers on , but this hive seems not be able to fight off the intruders as well.  Would feeding the sunkist hive slow them down?  Should I simply haul the Russians to a differnt part of the farm? The other hives in the yard seem to be fending off the robbers easily.

[Vance G]

If you have reduced the weaker russian hive entrance down to about two bees wide and the fighting doesn't stop, you might try closing in the weak hive for three days.  This would give the stronger hive time to forget them as a food source and you wouldn't have to move a hive.  Moving is a solution too, but when they are found in the new location they are still subject to the predation.  So I would just reduce the entrance first.