I took a bee hive out of a building last week ,put them in a brood box with
3 frames of brood .the next evening they were back on the building in
several swarms I determined that I destroyed the queen so I took another
queen from another hive packed her into a cage and taped her to a wall
under the larger swarm and finally got them all into the box happy.Now my
question, can this old hive that the queen came from and the new hive that
I caught with the old hives queen be combined without disrupting the scent?
                                 thanks for any thoughts on scents.
                                       Boy What A Mess, Troy C
                                      Permian Basin Beekeepers