My 2 hives started well from 5 frame nucs in late April. They pretty much filled their first deeps with 10 frames, and now they are moving up into their second deep brood boxes each.
If the bees continue to multiply and do well, how late in the season can I conceivably take 2 frames of brood and one of honey from each of them and start a new hive with the 6 frames and a new bought queen...and still have enough time
here in NY for that new hive to build up well enough to survive the winter? Around here most people run 2 deep hives for the winter.
Is it too late already? There are tons of things blooming, but I don't think my two hives are quite populated enough yet to take out 2 frames of their brood each- maybe in three more weeks they'd have several more frames full. But would that be too late for the new hive to get set for winter in time?
Not sure I should do this, but I would kind of like to have 3 hives going into this coming winter, and I haven't caught any swarm yet. I'm just curious about the timing issue of this kind of thing. Thanks for any insights....
