First Split

[dpence]

Today I inspected one of my hives and discovered four queen cells, two were capped.  I decided to take one of the frames with a nice cell on it and nurse bees and put them in a five frame nuc.  I added emerging brood and pollen stores. Two frames have drawn empty brood cells. On top I added a five frame medium super with two full frames of honey and the rest with empty comb.  I took a good amount of workers from the same hive, and placed the nuc about a 1/2 mile away on another location.  Since the greater amount of brood was in the upper deep of the original hive, I reversed the deeps.  I guess will wait and see what happens.  I also removed the other queen cells.  Humm...wondering if that was a good move. 

David   

[Michael Bush]

Sounds like a plan.

You might also open up the brood nest.
http://www.bushfarms.com/beesswarmcontrol.htm

[dpence]

Ok, yes I will look around in it again.  That hive is really strong.  Whats cool is they have a nice temperament.  Hopefully I don't loose that trait in the split.  I visually checked the split this morning and the activity looks good.  I put them under an apple tree...LOL. 

[DennisB]

Way to go Depence. Sounds like everything is going well your way. How did the Russians turn out?

Dennis