Sorry if this is the wrong place for a question. I made some nucs and took frames of brood with nurse bees and then shook a couple more frames of nurse bees into the nuc. Going back to check them, it now looks like a few could use more bees. I have no idea which hives they came from. Would it be okay to shake in some nurse bees from any other hive or would it have to be from the original donor hive? They seem to be doing fine after several days. But they just look light.
You can dump extra bees into hives from anywhere. You know, when producers make package bees, they dump hundreds of hives of bees into a big hopper and then fill the packages with a funnel. Then they add a queen in a cage. No one is related to anyone, but it all works out.
Sorry if this is the wrong place for a question. I made some nucs and took frames of brood with nurse bees and then shook a couple more frames of nurse bees into the nuc. Going back to check them, it now looks like a few could use more bees. I have no idea which hives they came from. Would it be okay to shake in some nurse bees from any other hive or would it have to be from the original donor hive? They seem to be doing fine after several days. But they just look light.
Dan,
You can dump extra bees into hives from anywhere. You know, when producers make package bees, they dump hundreds of hives of bees into a big hopper and then fill the packages with a funnel. Then they add a queen in a cage. No one is related to anyone, but it all works out.