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Tom Bick
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Thanks Tom, I appreciate all the feed back, so should I put the nuc frames into a BB first, or will they be ok, it's a six frame nuc, and this new nuc are only on two frames at moment, I did plan to unite them with an other hive, not the one with the laying workers. So when dumping out the laying worker hive, they will have the nuc and another hive to beg into, is that sufficient. Regards Sharon
Well a two frame nuc is hardly a nuc in my opinion perhaps early in the season it would have a chance of building up to a nuc come the end of the season but right now in my opinion it should be considered as a spare queen. On its own right now it will have virtually no chance of winter survival although someone will have a story of an even smaller nuc surviving.
You have to deal with your laying worker hive and this two frame nuc sometimes it comes down to a bit of a gamble that works or fails. Sorry but you have to make the call. I can think of other options but may only confuse the situation.