Remember that uniting bees and giving colonies brood from other 
colonies is the a very "unnatural" thing to do.
>
> When you give colonies bees/brood you make horizontal transfer of all kinds of nasties very easy.
>
> Lennard
>    

Unnatural beekeeping and horizontal transfer of nasties?

Since when is it unnatural to use the brood and bee resources that 
Nature has seen fit to provide? Of course, if your only concerns is to 
have what is natural...

I know a beekeeper in Cameroon. Wants me to help him and his village. 
They haven't enough bees to stock their hives and don't know what to do. 
I suggest splitting what they have and allowing the bees to raise new 
queens.

"Oh no, that would not be possible. The elders would never permit such 
actions. Bees come from God and for God we must wait. We will hang out 
hives in the trees and when God desires we have bees...we will have bees."

So be it my friend.
Mike

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