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Originally Posted by Iowanian
I might try to look for a queen tomorrow, I might pull a couple of brood frames from other hives and I'm considering spraying them with sugar water and dumping them I to my newest/smallest hive.
Thoughts?
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You can always as a last resort use them to bolster a weak hive. Use the newsprint trick. Add them to the other hive with a layer of newspaper between them. They will not like the scent of each other, but they’ll get used to the scent of the Queen by the time they chew through the paper in a few days.
Could be plenty of breeders with spare queens still. You never know.
Did you leave a box at the old location to pick up the stragglers?
Keep us posted!
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