The new queen didn't get mated, so I had to recombine the hives. The original hive doesn't have a queen anymore and the new hive with the queen doesn't have a lot of foragers.
Last night I used wet newspaper to create a barrier wall in the original hive. With the original colony on one side, I put the bars from the new hive on the other side of the newspaper. The idea is that they chew through the newspaper and by the time they get through the two colonies are acquainted and accept each other.
Today I checked on them and there are a lot of bees fighting. I don't know if the bees found an opening along the side of the paper, or if they just went outside and came back in the other opening. Hopefully, they get together and make peace soon, or I will be starting all over next spring.
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