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BEE HIVE SPLIT HOW TO
BEE HIVE SPLIT INSTALL
BEE HIVE SPLIT FULL

Keep a look out for the old queen – just in case. Step 2: (Wear protective equipment.) Smoke the queenless hive a little before opening up. This encourages the new split to more likely accept the new queen.

BEE HIVE SPLIT INSTALL

Organise the hive split about a day-or a bit longer-before you install the queen.The worker bees will kill the new queen if the old queen is present 😞 Beekeeper’s tip: Whether this is the split, or the original hive from which you took the split, this doesn’t matter – just make sure it is not the hive you plan on introducing the new queen into. Make sure the original queen is in ONE hive.

Also, if it is still consistently cold-with further drops in temperature overnight-and there are not yet many bees in the new colony, it can be difficult for the bees to maintain the required temperature for the brood to survive.ģ.

Be sure to do the split on a warm, windless day, as a drop in temperature can damage unhatched brood – ideally, you want the external temperature to be above 17-20☌/64-68☏ (unless you work really quickly – but even so, you need the temperature to be above 15☌/60☏).

Some beekeepers also choose to shake a few frames of worker bees into the split – just make sure that the queen isn’t on a frame you shake in!.

Move the original hive slightly, and place the new split next to the old hive – returning foragers will go to both hives meaning there should be a healthy amount of bees in both hives.

Make sure to keep the 4 frames pushed tightly into the middle of the brood box, with the new, undrawn-comb frames on either side this helps keep the brood space intact, maintains a stable temperature, and also encourages the bees to continue drawing straight comb.

BEE HIVE SPLIT FULL

Take 4-5 frames full of brood with healthy brood pattern from a healthy, prolific hive, and install into a new brood box – 4 brood frames if your hive is an 8 frame Langstroth hive (which is also our Flow Hive Classic 6 frame, Flow Hive 2, or Flow Hive Hybrid 3 frame), and 5 brood frames if your hive is a 10 frame Langstroth hive (which is our Flow Hive Classic 7 frame).Ģ.

BEE HIVE SPLIT HOW TO

Step 1: As per Hilary Kearney's how to split a hiveblog, first prepare your new hive split.ġ. There is no “right way” to install a new queen to a hive split – as with all beekeeping, there are many methods.

How do I install the new queen?ĭisclaimer. If you want to get good genetics from a queen breeder, if your colony is very aggressive (and are not Africanized bees), or if your hive split has not yet successfully raise a new queen. Take the old queen with you to the new hive split (though the original hive will still need a new queen),Īs with most beekeeping practices, this comes down to personal preference – we recommend doing some background research to decide which option best suits your situation.Once you have split your hive, you have the option to: So you’ve done a hive split, and now you need a queen.