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<blockquote data-quote="John B" data-source="post: 3985" data-attributes="member: 207"><p>In the spring when the hives start to build up and you get a weak hive you can fairly safely add bees by taking frames of brood from a strong hive, giving them a light shake which will remove most of the old bees and then give the frame a careful check to make sure the Queen isn't on that frame and then just bump all those young bees directly in front of the entrance of the hive you want to build up. Any old bees that didn't get shaken off first time will just fly home and all the young bees will crawl in the entrance . Ideally you would do this with quite a few frames. I wouldn't do this at this time of year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John B, post: 3985, member: 207"] In the spring when the hives start to build up and you get a weak hive you can fairly safely add bees by taking frames of brood from a strong hive, giving them a light shake which will remove most of the old bees and then give the frame a careful check to make sure the Queen isn't on that frame and then just bump all those young bees directly in front of the entrance of the hive you want to build up. Any old bees that didn't get shaken off first time will just fly home and all the young bees will crawl in the entrance . Ideally you would do this with quite a few frames. I wouldn't do this at this time of year. [/QUOTE]
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