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catchercradle
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Location: Cambridge, UK
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 Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 1:41 pm Post subject: Two Colonies in Perone |
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I am involved with managing a Perone hive on an organic farm in Lode, just outside Cambridge.
Helen who is at the farm more than I am took a swarm up there to place in it, only to find that a swarm had already moved in of it's own accord. Having no other free hive to put this swarm in, she walked them into the hive.
On checking, there are two distinct colonies there with separate areas of comb, both with brood.
We don't intend to look in this hive too often, just the occasional taking off of the lid and supers but it will be interesting to see how they do. Also interested in whether others have ran two colonies in any type of hive without divider boards keeping them apart? |
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Merinos
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Location: Brussels, Belgium
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Nice info. 2 colonies in the same box?
And many said they will kill each other. It just seems to be a question of volume. |
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catchercradle
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Still two separate colonies there but space filling up nicely.
| Quote: | | And many said they will kill each other. |
Most of the bees I have kept don't seem to have read the books. |
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Merinos
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Location: Brussels, Belgium
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Hi,
great info... would love to hear about them next spring. |
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