On  2 Sep 97 at 14:40, Mike Pheysey wrote:
 
> Ted's book says that you should first kill the poorer queen, let
> them settle down, then place them on top of queen right colony with
> pricked newspaper in between.  I want to do the reverse, unite on
> the site of the poorer colony and put the queen right colony on top
> of the queen culled colony.  Is this okay to do??
 
This is my prefered method. I would suggest further, that it is done
towards the end of the days flying. That way you are less likely to
lose the field bees from the queen right hive.
 
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