How to Merge Hives | Newspaper Method
Using newspaper you can merge two hives.
When you find a queenless hive you can immediately merge it with a queened hive using newspaper. No need to wait, but be sure one hive has no queen.
Merging small hives gives them a better chance of surviving the winter months.
If both hives are queen right you may need to decide which is the stronger queen and freeze the lesser queen. If you don't both may fail to survive.

Be sure to clean out the bottom board after you check back and remove the remaining newspaper. Let the girls get to work on brood rearing and foraging not trying to clean out that mess!
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Apis mellifera is not native to the Americas, so it was not present when the European explorers and colonists arrived. However, other native bee species were kept and traded by indigenous peoples. In 1622, European colonists brought the German honey bee (A. m. mellifera) to the Americas first, followed later by the Italian honey bee (A. m. ligustica) and others. Many of the crops that depend on western honey bees for pollination have also been imported since colonial times. Escaped swarms (known as "wild" honey bees, but actually feral) spread rapidly as far as the Great Plains, usually preceding the colonists. Honey bees did not naturally cross the Rocky Mountains; they were transported by the Mormon pioneers to Utah in the late 1840s, and by ship to California in the early 1850s.

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