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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => EQUIPMENT USAGE, EXPERIMENTATION, HIVE PLANS, CONSTRUCTION TIPS AND TOOLS => Topic started by: TwT on May 03, 2005, 03:51:27 pm

Title: Newspaper Method
Post by: TwT on May 03, 2005, 03:51:27 pm

I used the newspaper method the 2 days ago to join 2 colonys and was just wondering when can I take the rest of the news paper off or does it take a few more days for the to become 1 hive, seems to me that they are probably already joined after the first 24 hours but I just wanted to check with you guys that have done this think.

Title: Newspaper Method
Post by: BigRog on May 03, 2005, 05:36:00 pm

I remember giving them about 5 days, by that time they had eaten almost all of the newspaper away

Title: Newspaper Method
Post by: leominsterbeeman on May 03, 2005, 05:48:26 pm

5 - 7 days.