just forget them... anything more you do ... is damaging.
 
don't hope to start new laying: the stuff your bees will most need is food
(pollen reserves)  at springs... if you have chance there will still be a
queen at that time... other way springs is the best time to do what ever you
do now.
 
 
verify in march if there are larvae...
 
for myself I never will unify hives but only move frames,... and this at the
end of the season (august)
 
greatings from belgium,
 
Bernard.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
At 09:45 9/09/97 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Bill (Hughes), David (Eyre) and Betty (McAdam)
>
>First of all, many thanks for reponding to my request for advice,
>I mulled it over and plucked up enough courage to have a go last
>Saturday - here's an update from Monday night's inspection.
>
>CARNAGE! - Absolute carnage, there must be at least one or two
>thousand dead bees lying on the ground in front of the hive along
>with the shredded newspaper.  A carpet 10" by 14" of little bodies,
>all with their tounges extended, stropping in submission? or a
>response to being stung to death?  What a sad sight - what did I
>do wrong?
>
>At it seems that I have just managed to wipe out half the entire
>population of one of my colonies, is there anything I can do to
>redress the loss?  How about feeding heavily to stimulate the
>queen to lay additional eggs as we still have 2 or 3 more weeks
>to go before the first frosts begin to bite.
>
>Cheers, Mike Pheysey.
>Oldbury-on-Severn, Bristol, UK
>(100 miles west of London)
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