(Jen is having trouble posting so I am doing this for her for now)
Here's her question:
Nuc #1 queenless for more than two weeks maybe more. No laying workers yet. Added a frame with eggs about 5 days ago, the bees are making 1 queen cell, looks about 1/3 - 1/2 finished. Not too many Bees but friendly.
Nuc #2 queenless with laying workers. Lots more bees and friendly.
I would like for these two nucs to merge and make one nuc with many more bees. But don't know if a newspaper combine would be the right thing to do.
Plus, I have one chance with one queen cell.
If I combine them now... would the extra bees destroy the half build queen cell... Then I would be back to square one with no queen... But I could then add more eggs... scratching head... Or, maybe I should shake them both out and put away the equipment.