In message <001a01c42169$441f4840$b2e9d518@newdell>, Lloyd Spear
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>I have now been uniting in this manner for many years and have never seen
>any fighting.
Thank you. I wonder if our near A.m.m. bees are less tolerant of such
direct uniting. I once united a daughter colony to its parent, minus old
queen, as soon as she showed a good laying pattern only to find a lot of
dead bees. I also united a non-daughter after a month of resting over
mesh (full area) over the colony she was to be united with, also without
queen and found some fighting. I do unite nuclei without paper to
queenless colonies giving them a few minutes of light and a good space
between the parts without problems. Otherwise I trust newspaper.
--
James Kilty

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