A beginner's guide to walk-away splits

Are you splitting your colonies for the first time? Check out our beginner's tutorial on walk-away splits! We invite you to share in the comments any tips and tricks you use when splitting your colonies.

The music in this video, "The Flight of the Bumble Bee" by The US Army Band, was published before 1923 and is now in the public domain.

[lastphcm]

Just so you know in about 20 years, looking into queen cups to spot eggs will not be such an effortless task. Enjoy 😊 that youthful eyesight! Wonderful video, thank you for your efforts. Go Big Red!

[FrederickDunn]

This is absolutely my favorite method for making splits. A perfect demonstration in every possible way :)

[dougmahone]

Like the belt. I tell everyone that talks about misplacing their hive tool to go to Harbor Freight and buy a magnet to put in their pocket. That's what I do, works great.

[Bldyman]

Absolutely excellent presentation. I’m less than 12 months into beekeeping – but understood everything you said. Thank you so much.

[brianw.]

Outstanding video! You made this very clear and concise to follow. Will be trying this spring! First year beekeeper and loving it!

[sengyongyep]

I like her outfit and belt of course. Please keep making video like this to help us. Thanks for the hard work and really appreciate to see this educational movie.

[Makermook]

This is the clearest explanation I've seen of how to make a walkway split. Thank you.

[ryanlindell]

I've watched two of your videos now and you are by far my favorite. You speak clearly, get to the point and teach as you go. I am getting my first nuc in 2 weeks and looking forward to working with them soon. Please keep making these videos!

[slc]

Just did my first split, and am back checking myself to see if I did it right! Thank you so much for all the information. I’ll definitely go back to this video before splitting again 👍🏼👍🏼

[zimmy]

Informative & clearly stated your plan and what the end results will be. Thank you, I have been looking for someone like you to make everything clearer.

[ashleybell]

I'm nervous about doing this but will try this for my first time. So very happy you posted this!

[melissapollard]

Thanks for your great videos. I’m a relatively new bee keeper in Tasmania, Australia and I’m finding your videos incredibly helpful, informative and easy to follow.

[lovelymillie]

I just started my journey in beekeeper, but my dreams are bigger, wants to learn more and have my own bee yard. Yours is beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

[jpparker]

Clear and concise instruction expertly videographed.

[Reeser]

I’m new to bee keeping. Great videos! Very informative. My 6 week old hive just swarmed... so now I have two. Definitely feeling the need to educate myself a little more.

[nagendraghimire]

Well explained, you could be a good teacher.Thanks for sharing .

[sengyongyep]

Great video and speak so cleanly and precise and logical . This the so so so helpful for a backyard beekeepers to improve they knowledge.

[JOSIANGREENVLOGS]

This is the easiest method, I adopt.Very good video.

[sonofthunder.]

been enjoying your content, I like the magnet on your belt too

[gssimplebeekeeping]

Awesome video. Great job! You're a natural teacher.