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  • From: Randall Austin <ra41717 AT gmail.com>
  • To: mary passannante <marypassannante AT earthlink.net>
  • Cc: "ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org" <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [ocba] New queen but dwindling hive
  • Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 16:05:37 -0400

Mary,

The presence of a new queen doesn't matter with respect to boosting a weak hive with a brood frame or two from a strong hive. The beekeeping term for this is "equalizing" and you can do it any time, regardless of whether the hive is queenright, queenless or has a virgin. No problem.

Randall Austin

On 4/6/2013 2:21 PM, mary passannante wrote:
Hi all. On 3/16 , I preventively split 2 overflowing hives into a new deep. I
moved a mix of brood/pollen/stores (4 frames each). Today we have a new queen
that is not fertilized yet. Bee numbers are dwindling and they are clustered
on about 3 frames now. They abandoned a frame of capped brood and the rest
have hatched. I suspect the cold weather didn't help. I am worried as bees
naturally die off there won't be enough bees. Is it too late to move more
bees or brood into the hive now that there is a new queen?
thanks, mary


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