Today I wanted to check on the newspaper method of combining Hive #4 with Christin's hive. Without proper ventilation, the hive body above the newspaper could overheat and die. Since this is holding the good queen I needed to do some maneuvering of frames and hive bodies.
The bees had already chewed a nice sized hole in the middle, with smaller holes on the perimeter and had introduced themselves. I noticed no dead bees on the outside of the hive which means no fighting took place. I located the good queen and actually saw her laying so the bees from Christin's hive have accepted her so far.
The goal for today is to;
-Reduce the hive back down to 2 hive bodies from 3.
-Place the 10 frames from the hive body the queen is in to the hive body on the very bottom.
-Completely remove 10 frames that have the most drone larvae and bring those back home.
-Put the honey super back on top of Christin’s hive.
All of this went well and here is the final configuration now.
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