Newspaper tused to combine hives question

[East Texas Pine Rooter]

i am using a top entrance on my hives, and the bottom is screened without a bottom entrance. I have a hive that i captured, but i think i didn't get the queen. I'm going into the hive tomorrow to have a look, to see if i have any eggs. i have been feeding them a 1/1 syrup. A friend has a large broken limb that has fallen in his front yard. i walked out to let him show me, and the bees or fully exposed on the side of the wall of the limb. he told me they have been that way for about a month. he said there is a lot more bees now since it fell. it will be easy pickens. QUESTION: If i put a newspaper over the existing hive brood box, then put a empty hive box on top of that to drop the new hive into, what happens when the field bees comming in, enter the top entrance to get to there home, and run into the new introduced hive. I havent had any luck putting another newspaper on top of the new bess, because they immidiately start flying out. I also want to put a queen excluder just under the top entrance for a few days, so the queen can't swarm out. My last captured hive swarmed out this week. Please advise.

[East Texas Pine Rooter]

I hope you can read through all my mispelled words. how can i use a spell check on this forum before entering a new topic.

[SilverFox]

Not sure I'm following what your asking. On swarms I use a hive body just for them, rubber band any comb into empty frames and put them in the empty box use a bee vac to capture as many of the bees as possiable, screen the opening on the hive box and put the captured bees into it wait a couple days and remove the screen. Be sure to feed them while they are enclosed, I've only had one out of 13 swarms cought leave and that was because I forgot to close off the entrance until they started to build. If the hive is inside the broken branch then you'll have to split the branch open to remove the comb and bees. Remember the vast majority of bees are female and women do as they please.

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[Terri]

I have only done this once, so please consider the source.

When I combined the 2 hives, I made certain that there was no top entrance. The top hive had no way to come and go.

The weather was pretty hot, so I leaned boards against the hive to keep it in the shade. I wet the hive down once.

It took them about 3 days to make holes in the paper, and there was no trouble at all.

[Daisy]

I always provide top entrance when I combine with newspaper.

Wazzat the question?

[East Texas Pine Rooter]

I only have a top entrance on my hives, with a raised bottom that is screened w/#8 wire mesh, and is off the ground, to let the mites fall out of hive completely. the question is, with the new introduced colony located on top the newspaper, and the field bees still comming in throught the top entrace, will there be fighting?

[Daisy]

it's possible that the group on top will not like field bees trying to come in...

I have the bottom entrances so there's little problems when combining hives with newspaper...

why not peel back an entrance for the lower group?

[Michael Bush]

Since the bottom is screened the bees on the bottom should be able to get adequate ventilation and the field bees will just fly in like they own the place. They seldom get challenged under those circustances.

I think it will work fine.