Adding bees to a slow or failing hive

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van from Arkansas

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May 05, 2019, 07:27:43 PM
HP, thanks for the video!!  Question:

Do you experience bees in the stronger lower colony relocating honey from the upper weaker colony?  Sorta like robbing.

Barefoot, Agreed, cold crunchy snow, burr.  I get cold just looking at snow. 
I have been around bees a long time, since birth.  I am a hobbyist so my answers often reflect this fact.  I concentrate on genetics, raise my own queens by wet graft, nicot, with natural or II breeding.  I do not sell queens, I will give queens  for free but no shipping.

TheHoneyPump

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May 05, 2019, 11:07:54 PM
The bees do restructure the resources as the two nests merge.  No, I would not say they rob any box.  It is more a matter of their reorganizing of the contents to most efficiently support the combined brood nest.

The point and the perspective to take is, after a few days the setup is no longer two colonies.  It is one colony, one nest, managed as one, resourced as one. It just so happens to have a queen at each end of it.
When the lid goes back on, the bees will spend the next 3 days undoing most of what the beekeeper just did to them.
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