splitting-bees

1 год назад

The beekeeper plans to perform an OTS split on a strong colony, but discovers queen cells, indicating the colony is preparing to swarm. Instead, they decide to split the colony into four, hoping to prevent swarming and create new colonies. The beekeeper shares their process and thoughts on the decision, inviting viewers to share their own opinions.

10 лет назад

This video demonstrates a simple method for splitting a beehive. The beekeeper explains how to select frames with brood, eggs, and larvae, and then transfer them to a new hive body. The process involves shaking off bees from the selected frames and replacing them with empty frames in the original hive.

8 лет назад

This video demonstrates how to split a beehive into two nucs and a parent colony. The beekeeper explains how to identify queen cells and how to create nucs with queen cells and frames of brood. The beekeeper also provides tips on how to encourage bees to balance themselves out between the nucs.