My bees are making bees! After having no brood for weeks it was good to see new life in the hive.
These bees are very docile while also being very productive. I think I wanna keep these genetics. How would I go about splitting the hive?
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Amazing
Im going to do this soon. You would need to do an even split. Setup two hives, one ro each side of the original hive.
I think daytime will be better to have less bees in the hive.
All Odd frames go to one new hive. All Even frames to the other new hive. Need to make sure there is brood, pollen, and nectar/honey split into each. Even better if there are queen cells.
Look for the queen, to make sure she gets transported safely to her new hive. (Might put a board down and move frames over the board to new hive)
The other hive will have workers, brood, pollen, and nectar so they can start to grow their own queen within a few hours after the split.
Remove the original hive. Some of the bees will come beck and go to one hive and some will go back to the other. This is OK.
Thanks for the feedback so if I wanna split I need three hives not 2? Is there a limit in the year where I should not split and wait until next year
Yes you will need two extra to start and get back one hive. If Langstroth hives then you can probably reuse boxes.
I think timing depends on when the nectar flow stops in your area. I've decided to not feed sugar, so I'll need to split much earlier.
