Bob wonders about combining nucs to requeen.

Is the hive to be requeened queenless or queenright?

If queenless, the requirement to use a newspaper or other barrier is one of
beekeepings many 'old wives tales'.  Just put them together.  I've done it
hundreds of times and have never had a failure to accept.

If queenright, the newspaper is unlikely to *guarantee* success.  (Although
the chances of the youngest queen surviving is probably 90% or better.)  I
don't know anything about the use of Glade.

A method used by many with a queenright hive is to seperate the two hives by
a super of mostly sealed honey.  Eventually the hive below the super will
lose their queen and the queen in the upper box will survive.

A more common practice is to seperate the two queens with a queen excluder
and give the upper box an entrance.  Put any and all supers above the upper
box.  When the new queen is well established, remove the queen excluder.
The youngest queen will always be the survivor.  The only dififculty with
this is that sometimes the lower box will swarm.  If it does, immediately
remove the excluder and the bees will tear down the queen cells in the
bottom box.

Hope this helps.

--
Lloyd Spear
Owner Ross Rounds, Inc.
Manufacture of equipment for round comb honey sections,
Sundance Pollen Traps, and producer of Sundance custom labels.
Contact your dealer or www.RossRounds.com

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