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<blockquote data-quote="Timw" data-source="post: 9329" data-attributes="member: 164"><p>L. Inspection of a lWarre hive (2nd box) revealed no capped or open worker brood just patches of drone brood. Swarm hived 31 Oct. At last inspection 3 Dec there was some drone brood and also open and capped WB. The top box full of honey. Still plenty of foragers. The other hive on that site (small swarm hived 15 Nov) is 6 m away. Good honey and open and closed brood. Queen seen on 3 December/ not seen today but pretty busy and expanded into 2nd box since then. Given this doesn’t have a lot of brood - 6 frames - it’s a Warre. My inclination is to combine the queenless hive into the queenright hive. ( I’ve done this before once and it worked ok). Thoughts / comments?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Timw, post: 9329, member: 164"] L. Inspection of a lWarre hive (2nd box) revealed no capped or open worker brood just patches of drone brood. Swarm hived 31 Oct. At last inspection 3 Dec there was some drone brood and also open and capped WB. The top box full of honey. Still plenty of foragers. The other hive on that site (small swarm hived 15 Nov) is 6 m away. Good honey and open and closed brood. Queen seen on 3 December/ not seen today but pretty busy and expanded into 2nd box since then. Given this doesn’t have a lot of brood - 6 frames - it’s a Warre. My inclination is to combine the queenless hive into the queenright hive. ( I’ve done this before once and it worked ok). Thoughts / comments? [/QUOTE]
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