In message <003f01c4209c$3f2b3600$b2e9d518@newdell>, Lloyd Spear
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>Colonies can
>easily be combined without such a barrier...and with no fighting.
I will often put a whole nucleus into a dequeened colony, and sometimes
unite using sugar syrup spray (not always successfully), and I have
introduced a new queen into a nucleus made from the colony with which it
is later united, but cannot recollect hearing of any other method that
works. I did try putting a new queen colony above a mesh divider for a
few weeks, but they still fought when I united them having disposed of
the old queen a couple of hours before. Please will you give more
options Lloyd.
--
James Kilty

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