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Good eyes to note the queen cell,

It is probably a good idea to wait until this hive has eight of the frames pulled out and filled. If it were me, I would not add a super at this time. Since...

Looks like your hive is building up. Lots of brood, but really no stores. It might not be a bad idea to feed this hive until they a few frames of stores built up.

Shane

Could you possibly split that hive in the morning? It may be to late, but I would try a split.

Shane

All of my hives are foundationless. The few times I have moved hives, we had no problems.

HTH,

Shane

Flowerplanter has some good advice. To split a small nuc now is probably going to doom both colonies.

We installed a package for my friend a few weeks ago. Shortly after the new queen started...

Really cool,

Thanks for sharing.

Shane

+1 on this advice. When we make splits we move three frames with the new split.

Shane

Concentrate on frames you would expect the queen to be on. IE glance over frames of honey, she probably won't be on frames of capped brood. Don't look at each bee, look for the pattern of her long...

Like Rader said, Michael Bush has some great info. I would add, find an experienced splitter. They can get you pointed on the right track.

For my splits, I wait until the bees put eggs in the...

Thanks everyone,


Came home at lunch and they where still not foraging. Came home after work and that split was very busy foraging. They were bringing in pollen as well.

Since robbing has...

If they are going to swarm, they typically backfill the broodnest with honey. If it were my hive, I would check the broodnest. If the broodnest is full of nectar/honey, chances are they are getting...

One of my splits is loaded with bees, but is not foraging. This split was made four days ago. We put the queen, two medium frames of honey and four frames of capped brood in an eight frame medium...

This is called bearding, and is normal during warm weather.

My bees came from swarms, nucs and splits, so my experience with packages is limited. Earlier this year, we installed a package for a friend. These bees went on drawn comb. So they had a huge head...

Really, just the type of split. I like to make nucs. You are planning an even split. Both are fine. Like Jon, when I find a queen cell with an egg, I split then.

Shane

It is best to split now. If you wait until they are capped it is too late. It might be best to put the old queen in a nuc. Otherwise, they may swarm anyways, at this point.
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The Tulip Poplar is also our major honey flow.

Found it,

I will repost the link, in case any others missed it:

http://www.dixiebeesupply.com/Dixiebeesupply/Don_Kuchenmeister,_The_Fat_Bee_Man.html

The donate button is 3/4 page down and a...

If you get this started, count me in. Fatbeeman's post have really helped me out.

Shane

After seeing Slow Modem's post, I found the donate button.

Sent you an email.

Thanks very much,
Shane

if they are needed the syrup, they would take it. I would remove them.

Nice!

I don't have a lot of experience with packages,

But the few I do, it seems they always supercede, and fairly quickly. Bluegrass had some good advice. In this case, I would leave the queen cell...

The time of the year dictates how often I inspect our hives. During swarm season I check every seven days, unless there is bad weather. Other times of the year it varies. For example, during our...

Good question, with several answers. In the spring, I feed only until they have some capped stores.

Entrance feeders can cause robbing.

When you did the cutout, did you get the queen?