Equalizing Colonies | Beekeeping Academy | Ep. 48

[@BakerBees]

Great Vid!! Thanks

[@kellymoore4517]

All very good examples, thanks.

[@UFHoneyBeeLab1]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@altaylor293]

Good review of equalizing hives.

[@UFHoneyBeeLab1]

Thank you for watching!

[@MinnesotaBeekeeper]

Great with nice detail Jamie. Thanks. I might add in the spring to boost nurse bees we put a weaker hive on top of a stronger one. Queen excluder and a news paper merge. Thank you again.

[@UFHoneyBeeLab1]

Thank you for your continued support on our videos!

[@vegasbees]

Thank you for the interesting video. I never tried this before.

[@UFHoneyBeeLab1]

If you decide to use one of these techniques, let us know how it goes!

[@Stingerfarms]

If I move the super from the strong hive to weaker hive, what will stop them from attacking the weaker queen?

[@sentimenbapongen973]

So changing their original hive to another hive won't make them confused, will they know they have been changed their hive ?. Will they not attack the queen on the hive their were put to .. ??.

[@Stingerfarms]

I was always told to use newspaper when combining hives. I haven’t had much luck combining entire boxes. I’ve had more success swapping frames of capped brood.

[@sentimenbapongen973]

@Stingerfarms I hope the same techniques can be applied to Apis Cerena ?

[@BeekeeperLebanon]

Hello Great video. I was just wondering if we could jeopardize the weaker queen in these swaps ? Wouldn't the new added bees attack the others bees and their queen and kill her ? Some say to spray all the bees with sugar sirup when we make frames swap .Thank you