Owen
06-24-2006, 09:15 PM
I was inspecting my hive today to see if they were still hot or if they had settled down. I also was wanting to make a split so I was looking for brood in various stages, capped honey and pollen. I am using two supers with 20 frams half of which are perco and a SBB as a hive.
What I found was most of the frames had a mix of brood both capped and open with larve. I did not see any eggs but I could have missed them. Honey both capped and uncapped with pollen and several drone cells either with larve or capped.
The hive did not seem to hot this time. I smoked them a lot and waited a minute or two before I started. I have been planing on requeening but have not got to it yet.
I am Planing on taking all the plactic frams and put them in a extra hive body I have with a SBB shake a few pounds of bee's in the hive body making sure I do not shake the queen into it and place a new queen in the hive. Some of the frames will have capped an uncapped brood but not a lot. Will this work? I have the extra hive body on the same stand with the parent hive and facing the same directtion about 6 inches appart.
I also was going to requeen the old hive at the same time. If I kill the old queen and let the hive be queenless over night will before I put the new queen in ( the same time I put the queen in the split), will I have problems?
Owen
What I found was most of the frames had a mix of brood both capped and open with larve. I did not see any eggs but I could have missed them. Honey both capped and uncapped with pollen and several drone cells either with larve or capped.
The hive did not seem to hot this time. I smoked them a lot and waited a minute or two before I started. I have been planing on requeening but have not got to it yet.
I am Planing on taking all the plactic frams and put them in a extra hive body I have with a SBB shake a few pounds of bee's in the hive body making sure I do not shake the queen into it and place a new queen in the hive. Some of the frames will have capped an uncapped brood but not a lot. Will this work? I have the extra hive body on the same stand with the parent hive and facing the same directtion about 6 inches appart.
I also was going to requeen the old hive at the same time. If I kill the old queen and let the hive be queenless over night will before I put the new queen in ( the same time I put the queen in the split), will I have problems?
Owen