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  1. Beekeeping 101
    My strongest colony has always had a tendency to get a bit irritated during inspections, and recently I split them. I opened them up yesterday ( 1 month after the split) to check if they were queenright, and they were. They had lots of eggs and even a bit of capped brood. But wow, they were...
  2. Splits/Combines
    In my 3rd year of beekeeping and need some advice. My strongest colony is getting ready to swarm. Found 10 swarm cells today, most were uncapped and some were capped. The box the cells were built in was added on April 29th. I'm guessing most cells are at day 7 for nearly being capped. Though a...
  3. Splits/Combines
    In our country, its hard to get naturally mated queens for millifera bees so we mostly depend on artificially inseminated ones. My question is, how do I split a hive to a new location (1km away) and introduce a new queen? I heard its safe to get a maximum of 3 frames (brood in all stages and...
  4. Swarms, Trap-outs, and Cut-outs
    Hello from Portland, OR. I'm in my first spring with my top bar colony begun last summer and overwintered. I caught the colony swarming last week and was going to just let them go, but they clustered back on the hive. Same thing the next day, but by then I had scrounged a couple more hives and...
  5. Beekeeping 101
    So I am a first season keeper in zone 6a with two new colonies purchased this year. Both hives have two deeps on them right now. Colony A has loads of honey and brood, 2-3 empty frames in both boxes and 3-4 queen cells and I think one hatched already. Colony B had lots of brood and some...
  6. Splits/Combines
    Looking for advice.... Started with an double deep 8 frame hive that lost the queen. I took the opportunity to make splits out of the hive since it was well populated. I split off two EZ Nucs and also left the original hive to requeen. Original hive produced queen. One of the two EZ Nucs...
  7. Splits/Combines
    I am considering doing some splits that immitate a hive just swarmed. Is there a name for this or is it a common way to split? Day 1:Seperate the supers from the brood chamber. Install a new bottom board and outer cover on the supers and keep the supers in the original hive location. catch the...
  8. General Bee Forum Discussions
    I did an inspection today and it has made me think about how I make my splits. I was looking at a split I made on the 4th of December, it has been going well but today I saw a queen cell. Just one, half way up a frame, I also saw the queen and fresh eggs. The queen was running around, seemingly...
  9. General Bee Forum Discussions
    Q- Are queen cells (elongated) in the middle of frame always supercedure? I removed a queen today and created a split and now I'm starting to doubt myself and whether I made the right decision. Parked old queen and a few frames of brood in a resource hive. Gave them a sugar slurry over wax...
  10. Splits/Combines
    Background: I have two colonies - one a package in a horizontal hive that is establishing itself quite nicely the other a feral hive that occupied a hive left empty last fall, overwintered and is THRIVING. The feral colony is in a langstrom setup single brood box, queen excluder and two honey...
  11. Splits/Combines
    Hi, I have a hive that I think I'll be able to split in the next couple of weeks, and the hive that I'd like to put them into is only about 4ft away, and oriented in the same direction. I'm curious if this is too close, and if the workers that are heading out to forage will just go back into...
  12. Splits/Combines
    Help! We tried making 3 splits with caged queens but none were successful. In all 3 of them, the queens were not released from the cage and died. What did we do wrong? For split #1 we took 2 frames of capped brood and 1 frame of honey with a few shakes of bees and put it in 8 frame deep box...
  13. General Bee Forum Discussions
    I am at a crossroads in solving a problem created by my goof. The plan was to create a split from my existing carniolan hive. Seemed like a good idea because I had a ton of bees and the honey flow appears to be over here in southern New Hampshire. I would remove two frames of emerging...
  14. Splits/Combines
    Hi, I'm a 2nd year beek, and have overwintered a hive that came from a nuc late last spring. The nuc was suspect (long story: a disastrous late freeze with my first package, found a guy on Craigslist with late nucs, met him in a parking lot at 5 am, black comb on old frames - I know...
  15. General Bee Forum Discussions
    So, here's the situation. It is my 2nd year beekeeping. I was wanting to experiment with single deep brood chambers. So I went to the yard over the weekend and tried to use one of my double hives that didn't have anything in the bottom box. However, when I got there there was 2 frames of brood...
  16. Commercial Beekeeping
    So as title say what are best way to create bees package in industrial apiary without to locking for queen in every hive. I was thinking at some method like this but couldnt understand if he look for queen or not (sorry not a native engliish) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ShQt-AEoFM . But...
  17. General Bee Forum Discussions
    Good day, In mid-June this year I made a split from my overwintered colony. By the end of July I already had 3 full boxes (8 frame Lang) on that new split. Two weeks ago I took the upper box off - it was full of honey (just as the second box is). I extracted the honey and then installed the...
  18. Splits/Combines
    Hi, I am fairly new to this. I have 2 top bar hives, one just split on its own last week and left. I checked my other one and I see queen cells. I do not want to lose half of these bees too as I have an empty Langstroth I would like to put them in. I have also one other langstroth that I just...
  19. Swarms, Trap-outs, and Cut-outs
    I have a hive that's got me stumped, and if someone could provide some information, it would really be appreciated. I captured a fairly large swarm two weeks ago. Since it seemed too large for a nuc, we went ahead and placed them in an empty deep and left it alone and filled with bees. This is...
  20. Splits/Combines
    Good day! Part of my hive has swarmed today. Not too many bees left though. One of my acquaintances a commercial beekeeper helped me to do the following: 1. Go through the hive frame by frame and find frames with capped queen cells 2. Found 3 queen cells and split the colony into 3; The main...
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