Do honeybee splits have to be moved long distance away

If you are doing honey bee splits the new colonies do not have to be moved a long ways from your hive. They can be done right beside the hive you're splitting from. Its an old school teaching that says they have to be two miles away. Most of the bees on these brood frames are nurse bees and they will stay with the split. There is no need to move them away from the yard.

[GoldenLegionHoney]

You can also move the split into the mother hives location to get returning foragers to go to the split.

[bbaker]

Nice video David. Nice amount of drone cells on that one frame. Great videos I really enjoy them.

[johnarter]

Good video I've just made 15 of your 2 frames boxes to try out this year for queen rearing thanks john

[thuffman]

Thumbs up David! You're getting pretty good at one handing your videos, LOL. I Love it! 🐝🐝🐝☮️

[ronaldmarshall]

Get video Dave!!! One of the questions I had and now you have answered it. Thanks

[jman]

amazing how fast they covered that queen. Still freezing here in Ma. 14 outside yesterday I hope my girls make it.

[tommycrisler]

Do medium 2 frame boxes work as well as the deeps? Any changes in how to use 2 frame mating NUCs? Thanks

[danielaboksjo]

Oh that's the video I was looking for!! Thank you!

[stevegibbs]

The reason you move them is so that they start off better with foragers included. When I've done splits in the apiary they shrink down and get a slow start. What you've proved is that nurse bees stay, but you don't know how many nurse bees you got in the split. I just did a bunch of splits and moved them and they are going gangbusters.

[portraitmakersyorks]

Hi David, hoping to have my queen rearing at full speed this year in the UK and be selling mid summer.

[christianschmidt]

Hey David do you buy your queens or raise your own and if you raise them do you have a system and even better a video?

[natserog]

can you just use a 5 frame nucs to do a split. Not seeing the huge advantage of a 2 frame. ---thanks

[KevinsNorthernExposure]

curious why you are doing splits with a mated queen in a two frame nuc. What's the purpose? It can't grow many bees. Thought the two frame nucs were mating nucs for virgin queens?

[stevesoutdoorworld]

Good vid David.I like 5 frame mediums for nucs .They are small and lite and seem to give me more time before they fill out too fat and try to swarm.As they need room i just put more on more like a super.Some times 3-4 or 5 high.Its sure fun to work the bees and it keeps me out of the titty bar.

[Rick]

Hey David, I'm going to split an overwintered colony soon which is in a mostly full double deep 10 frame hive. I'm going to get some mated queens and want to make splits into 5 frame nucs (deep), with plans to have some nucs for resources and move some back into 8 frame equipment too. I'm about he same temperature zone as you are. What mix of resources and frames would you put in each 5 frame nuc with the mated queen? I do plan to put a top feeder on each also.

[willowknollhomestead]

I’ll try it in May when the weather turns and the snow melts.

[unisol]

Pretty good video instructive, clear and short

[diggindeep]

can you show how you set your bee yard in relationship to the sun please

[MisfitGardening]

Great to know! Thank you so much for sharing!

[Anonymous-zouu]

I'm trying splits in the same yard this year so far without issue. Since I'm trying to have the split raise the queens themselves, doesn't it kind of make sense to delete most of the foragers anyway? By the time the nurses raised the queen, they should be foraging anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I have no idea what I'm doing. Good video!