Beekeeping : How To Split A Bee Hive Part 2

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My overwintering technique is no secret. I sell the winter-bee-kinds I invented, have an ebook on Amazon about how to get your bees through the winter and I offer classes on overwintering.

My next video shows how to place the split back in the spot of the original colony for 30 minutes to add resources/foragers and then take it back. It's a cool video. Stay tuned.

[Likeidid]

I can't wait until your channel goes viral. I can't understand why it hasn't yet. You do such a good job with your content and delivery of it. Keep up the good work.

[williemaykit]

Great video! I watched both parts. I enjoyed watching the inspection process. Makes me feel a little more confident going into my first hive.

[brianbennett]

Great 👍 info. Thanks David and Sheri 😊

[davemaloneyvideos]

Great video of a very strong hive coming out of winter. My only suggestion is that beekeepers use a quiet cloth regularly. I use an old bath towel. I cover frames from about 1 through 6 of seven as I pull frame 9 and then 10. You will have hardly any bees flying all around which can be very disconcerting to a new beekeeper. When you pull a box and set it to the side, cover it also with an old towel. And when replacing a box on top of another, just lay a towel on top of the lower box and all the bees will go down into the interspaces with 15 seconds, thus leaving the top bars in that lower box free of bees so there is no crushing. Of course you could smoke the heck out of them to make them go away, but why do that when a nice, old, soft towel will do the same thing.

[p.markmcgonigle]

I really enjoy the way you explain things!

[kmtango]

Impressive hive, I like how you just tossed that cocoon 😂😂😂

[carolinacarnio]

Great David! I love your videos! I am learning a lot! Cheers from Australia

[wally]

G'day David, love your videos!! Full of helpful information and a good splash of positivity and optimism. Keep up the good work!! Cheers Matt (Australia)

[mattn.]

When you split that hive 3 ways coming out of winter, do you let them make their own queen or did you requeen them?

[jimt]

Very Nice video of a simple double split David! As always lots of good information.

[larryryan]

David, Thanks so much. I am absolutely the newest novice. I probably did my first hive wrong by stacking two deeps, then releasing the queen 13 days ago. I'm wandering if I should use an queen excluder and when to add a super.

[dalehursey]

AWESOME !! You could have actually even made more than just 3 hives from that split. Ever try any 2 frame mini nuc boxes ? Love your videos !!

[justforfun]

I do the same thing when i have queens laying im the super, make splits and put medium frames in a deep box, i have at least 20 medium frames that with the comb on the bottom are the same size as a deep. I am just going to let them go until i get to a point where its time to cycle out the old comb and that could be a decade or more lol.

[chcnsac]

Love your videos! New beekeeper here. Will you please give your opinion about using screened bottom boards vs solids. Thanks so much. So much to learn!

[breau]

So the one you just did and. One leaving both have no queens so will they make queens or do you put new queens in? Great watching you thanks

[robism]

Hi David, rob from Canada. No repley needed. I read the repley to sarah steeves so sort have the information. Thanks

[bradgoliphant]

Hey David, where to you get that veil? Love it.

[josephwoodall]

What a cool video thank you. That hive was really packed. I'm in my first year and I came through winter with four of six colonies three of them are fairly strong but one has a pitiful little cluster it's still quite cold here in northern New York and I fear the worst for that little colony. I reduced them down to a single deep and blocked off most of the entrance but the cluster is so small I think they need to be moved to a nuc. Can I do this safely? If so how?

[michellehuskins]

David - great video. Thank you! One question for you... once you made the split and moved the frames to the newly painted box, you had 10 solid frames of brood and tons of bees. Why did you add a second brood box? My thought is that the full 10 frames will leave the bees with no room to grow and lead them to swarm. On the other hand, they also don’t have a queen yet so perhaps that’s the only reason why you didn’t add more space? Could you please clarify? Thanks!!

[judithdiani]

Do you add an entrance reducer after a split on either the hive with the queen or the queenless hive?