Beekeeping: Requeening Update 4

This is the fourth installment of my re-queening series. The sad news is we saw no queen or evidence of a honeybee queen in hive #1. The queen in hive #2 is going gang busters laying eggs throughout the brood box and up into the honey super. Should I steal the queen from hive #2 and put her into hive #1, get a swarm queen, move eggs and larvae from hive #2 to #1? What would you do? Please comment below.

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• Requeening
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[BrothaJason]

add two frams of seald brood, put in a new queen, and feed them suger water at thesame time you are puting in a new queen bee'stan jordan clendein w.va beekeeper for over 42 years

[LDSPrepper]

@BrothaJason Thank you very much Jason.

[scodurh]

what would you do if society broke down into chaos (SHTF)....would you steal a queen from hive #2 ? try that now so you know what to expect if SHTF ever happens

[ShawsHoney]

Agree with chuck, combine the 2 hives (via newspaper). Keep all the frames that are full of honey and scratch partial filled frames and leave them in front of the hive for bees to clean. Then put all unused equipment in storage till next spring.

[revisualize]

Just a thought, maybe your area can't support two large hives. Is there a way to maybe stack one the boxes and make one really large hive? Queen 2 is already moving upwards to lay eggs. Why not give them more room to put honey? I just think that it is really interesting that hive 1 has gone dormant twice now. Too much competition? Other bees coming over and killing her off? Maybe move the box to a different location on the property?

[greatwf]

¡great!



[chuckarama451]

It's getting late in the year. Winter bees are starting to be laid as eggs now. If you want to save them, give them some brood frames from other hive, and order in a laying queen. Then feed, feed, and feed some more. Pollen patties + sugar syrup. This time of year, I start to feed patties anyway, as protein insurance, for fat healthy winter bees. Other option is to combine them into the other hive (newspaper combine). Better 1 strong hive than 1 dead and 1 medium strength hive. FWIW.