Beekeeping : Various Ways To Make Spring Splits

Beekeeping means lots of bees in the spring and that we need to make a split. Let's talk about various ways to split your bees in the spring.

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[brewinfool]

Speaking of swarms amongst other things, did you happen to see the bees that delayed a professional televised tennis tournament on Thursday?

The swarm ended up landing on the camera that is suspended over the court!

This was in Southern California fwiw

[gordonspond]

28:29 I split a package in 3 one time (bought two extra queens).
I kept them in 3-frame nucs until they built up.
I got three hives out of it, and they overwintered... but no honey crop (wasn't expecting one anyway).

[shawntober]

Almost on my 2nd year of beekeeping. Thank you for all the help Mr. Burns #Books

[TheBguenth]

Hi Dave,
I have never had a successful split but am thinking about trying your first description of takin g1 deep off and putting on another bottom board. I checked this past weekend and my hives is good so far but I'm worried because I've had swarming in the past few years and honey production was nil. If I take a deep and put on bottom board, can I sit a honey super on top of it also? So don't worry about queen cups or finding the queen? In other words, I will have 2 hives and both will have 1 deep with 1 super (queen excluders, too)? right? Thanks!

[laurameno]

Yep, Mom and dad just trusted the world and we just needed to be home when the lights came on unless we were told otherwise.

[paulschaefer]

I saw this as an aftershow. You mention something about if it's okay to let a colony swarm so you have a new queen. In your response you say that you have the issue of having to deal with the queen they would make themselves vs one you bought. Last year, I had four different queens in trhee colonies. the only one that was any good was the one the bees made themselves. I'm not a fan of buying queens.

[slava]

There are many methods for preventing swarming, but which one is most effective?

[bryanbetournay]

Great video guys had a Saturday missed out on the giveaways tonight would’ve been nice to pick up that package

[brendawydeven]

That is the bee logg books I use. Thanks how I know it snowed in May last year so weather can change anytime and don't jump the gun on splits ect. :)

[cindybryant]

I would love to learn more about raising queens

[DeannaWelsch]

I had an unusual situation where I found one of my hives had 3-4 bees in it. I was cleaning it out and the queen came out and climbed onto the sugar block. So I have queen without a colony. I live in New England, the temps can drop to freezing at this time. What would you do?

[titussmith]

Good evening David, Jessica and Sheri

[jt]

Hey David sorry I missed your live tonight. Had a question for you. Do you prefer double brood boxes always? What is the advantages over double vs single? Thank you, sir. Highly enjoy your video's

[jamesbarron]

How long do you wait to introduce a new Queen to the Queenless split after you make the split.

[chiromom]

Would wrapping the new split help with the temperature control when done early?

[willdelito]

When in the Spring it safe to harvest left over winter stores?