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Offline Kev

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combining colonies
« on: July 11, 2007, 04:44:40 pm »
Hi folks,

I recently combined two colonies to get 1 queen-right. When can I take out the newspaper between the two hive bodies?

Kev
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Offline doak

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Re: combining colonies
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2007, 05:05:55 pm »
They will chew most of it out. Next time ( in a week or two), when you check them again may have to clean up some stray stuff.
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Re: combining colonies
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2007, 09:27:28 pm »
Like Doak said, don't worry about the newspaper you can clean it up whenever, its not critical or even necessary.
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Offline Moonshae

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Re: combining colonies
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2007, 10:57:46 pm »
Just trim away what is hanging out on the outside, if you didn't do that initially.
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Offline imabkpr

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Re: combining colonies
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2007, 07:34:30 am »
There is no need to use newspaper or anything else when joining a drone layer with a queenright colony. Just do it. Check them in 10 days, decide then whats the best thing to do---split,or leave them alone. Do whatever your area dictates.    Charlie
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Offline Holycow

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Re: combining colonies
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2007, 07:50:01 pm »
For me they always get thru the newspaper within 48 hours. Not 100% of the paper being gone, but plenty of places where its obvious bees are moving back and forth.
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Re: combining colonies
« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2007, 08:17:25 pm »
Thanks all, I checked and they did chew through in large places. I'll pull the rest out later.

Kev
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