>Could any of the queen breeders out there suggest a fast and simple method
of trasferring bulk bees into mating baby nucs without injury to the bees?
I understand that most people simply spray the bees down with syrup so that
they are easier to handle.  Is there another way?
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>Kevin Christensen
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Hi Kevin;
 
        When standarded frames are used, brood and honey can be assembled
from different colnies and stacked above a queen excluder on a few strong
colnies. With in a short time all the comb will be covered with bees and can
be placed over to the nucleus.
 
        Another way of accomplishing a similar result is to pile the hive
bodies of brood on regulation bottom boards and add about 5 pounds of young
bees from each hive body of comb, by brushing the bees onto the top box frames.
Thanks from :
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