shaking bees

[rober]

I heard some people say that when you shake bees off of a frame that you are killing brood. any truth to this?

[Kathyp]

how?  maybe if you shake it hard enough to shake the brood out, or you bang the frame to get the bees off......

[rober]

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.

[sterling]

If you are concerned brush them off with a turkey feather into the hive.

[sc-bee]

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.