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<blockquote data-quote="tristan" data-source="post: 9608" data-attributes="member: 30"><p>the hive is dead.</p><p></p><p>its probably best to join it with the other hive. make sure its ABOVE the excluder (as you may still have a queen or unmated queen) and use papering technique to join the two. keep the other excluder on as well.</p><p>the advantage here is the bees look after the queen, if there is a queen, you can run double queen over winter. if there is unmated queen you will need to deal with that. come spring you can let it build up and its an easy split.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>if you mean closed the hive up, that certainly would have killed the hive.</p><p>not sure why you would want to ever do that.</p><p></p><p>unfortunately it sounds like they have not taught you lesson number one, understanding hive size. what size is good, whats poor and whats dead.</p><p>very common issue for beginners and hobbyists.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tristan, post: 9608, member: 30"] the hive is dead. its probably best to join it with the other hive. make sure its ABOVE the excluder (as you may still have a queen or unmated queen) and use papering technique to join the two. keep the other excluder on as well. the advantage here is the bees look after the queen, if there is a queen, you can run double queen over winter. if there is unmated queen you will need to deal with that. come spring you can let it build up and its an easy split. if you mean closed the hive up, that certainly would have killed the hive. not sure why you would want to ever do that. unfortunately it sounds like they have not taught you lesson number one, understanding hive size. what size is good, whats poor and whats dead. very common issue for beginners and hobbyists. [/QUOTE]
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