I used newspaper once to dump a swarm in with a weak hive. Just happen to
be a junk pickup truck in the field next to the hives with a bunch of very
yellowed newspaper in it so I grabbed some and used it. Otherwise they
would of been on their own. If there was a queen she was probably
a virgin. I had been called to the same house three times in two weeks to
pick up swarms from one hive that had been left at the house when the man
died, that swarm was the third. The daughter wanted her fathers box of bees
but didn't want to care for them. By the third swarm I was sick of going
there and went her barn and got some supers to throw on them. I drive by
there and the hive is still there but I have no clue if there are still
bees, if they are they are real survivors since they are totally neglected
for two years.

Karen T-K

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