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RE: WE RECUED BEES FROM INSIDE A CEILING!!
Good job. Do you put any newspaper or anything between the box with the new bees and the old hive to help with the introduction? Always enjoy learning how other beekeeps do stuff.
No bud we have not yet physically mixed live bees with that strategy we have mixed live bees before just smoked them and they integrated fine. That does work I hear where did you hear that, mostly folks that read the bee bible know that trick? Cheer$;)
Commercial beekeeps I know take bees from a weak hive in a hive body and sit it on top of another stronger hive with newspaper in between. Theory is they get used to the new queen's pheremones in the time before they get through the paper. A few small knife cuts through the paper are supposed to help the bees get started on an opening. Then they do a pretty good job of removing all the paper. I've done this once and it worked.