Here we go, 'round again...

I worked through some hives today and the two hives I had marked from previous cursory glances under the lids as being problematic proved to be...  problematic.

So, I took the box of bees with the drone layer and plopped it onto a weaker hive which has a queen and brood and the queenless one with a box and half of bees onto a hive with several frames of bees and a queen and a 4" circle of brood on two sides of one frame.

The bees were flying and there is nothing in the way of forage.  A few bees were in some boxes of honey I left open as an indicator.

These are not ideal combining conditions.  Did I use newspaper?   Nope... just a little smoke while I was checking them.  Did I look for queens?  Nope.  Did I see any fighting?  Nope.

Will there be happy, laying queens when I next look?  Dunno.  I think so.  We'll see.

To be continued.

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