Im having issues with a combine. A couple weeks ago I caught 2 after swarms from the same hive and put them together. After about 24 hours I found the virgin queen and killed her. I then added a nuc on top separated with newspaper. A war broke out and there was about a half pound of bees on the ground in the morning. So we looked for the queen and could not find her. I decided to build this hive up and try adding another NUC over a couple layers of newspaper. A war broke out again and there are dead bees everywhere. After 2 days i took a peak and found the queen balled up. Sometimes things just dont go right. BTW...this is the second time in the last few years that this has happened. Crazy!
JoeMcc
JoeMcc