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  1. 04-17-2009, 10:47 AM #1
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    How to split a bee hive


    There many ways to split a bee hive, maybe as many as there are bee keepers.
    Here is how we do it with a boughten queen.
    Search the top box of a double deep hive to make sure the queen isn’t there, and to make sure some brood pollen and honey are there. Set them off to the side.
    We set a double screen board on top of the bottom hive, it also has the entrance to the top box, which faces 180 degrees to the bottom mother hive entrance.



    I then set the second deep on top of the first one. Remove one frame, spread a couple out a bit. I then install the queen cage between the two spread out frames and push them together.





    We then close it up for 4 days. Once the queen is released, laying a good pattern and the night temps are over 45F we remove the top box.



    If you like to build your own.


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  2. 04-17-2009, 10:50 AM #2
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    Cool, honey bees are amazing.


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    Al thats cool.
    Question.
    What are those new hives that are small and have small holes drilled in them and you stack them anyway you want, they are in various colors, how does one get them populated???
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    Quote Originally Posted by alleyyooper View Post
    How to split a bee hive


    There many ways to split a bee hive, maybe as many as there are bee keepers.
    Here is how we do it with a boughten queen.
    Search the top box of a double deep hive to make sure the queen isnt there, and to make sure some brood pollen and honey are there. Set them off to the side.
    We set a double screen board on top of the bottom hive, it also has the entrance to the top box, which faces 180 degrees to the bottom mother hive entrance.



    I then set the second deep on top of the first one. Remove one frame, spread a couple out a bit. I then install the queen cage between the two spread out frames and push them together.





    We then close it up for 4 days. Once the queen is released, laying a good pattern and the night temps are over 45F we remove the top box.



    If you like to build your own.


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    "Question.
    What are those new hives that are small and have small holes drilled in them and you stack them anyway you want, they are in various colors, how does one get them populated???"






    Not sure if your talking about a normal bee hive or not, like those above?

    You buy packages of bees or a nuke. Packages come in 2, 3 and 4 pounds.

    The hive bodies for raiseing bees are normally 9 5/8" deep and contain at least 9 frames of foundation.


    The package of bees are (by the books) shook into the hive where they make the comb on the foundation. The queen lays eggs in the cells and the workers bees feed the larva honey and pollen mix and cap the cell. In 28 days you get a new worker bee. Or if the cell is a larger one you get a drone in about 21days.

    A nuke (nuc for short) is 4 or 5 frames of comb already drawn into cells. There is normally 2 frames of honey & pollen, then 2 to 3 frames of caped brood, open larva and eggs.

    Package bees this year cost an adverage $65.00.
    Nucs cost this year an adverage of $85.00

    A nuc of bees can be bought local most of the time if you know where to look. The nuc will give you about a two week head start on a new hive also.

    The third way to get a new hive started is with the split described above if you already have bees.

    Another way of getting a new colony of bees is remove them from a building or a fallen tree.







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    Al here is a picture about the ones I have never seen.
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    The 5th and easiest way is to get a swarm.



    This one was in front of our local Home Depot store last spring.
    I had about 20 employess watching me set up and shake them into the hive body.



    Took longer to answer all the questions than it did to hive them.

    This one is also a last spring swarm. took them an hour and a half to march into the hive.





    The lady who called me loves her front yard and had to show me while the bees were maeching into the hive.




    I also should mention I found the queen in the swarm and caged her. Once caged I put her in the hive in the cage. I also used the bee brush to sweep some of the slower girls closer to the entrance.
    I released the queen once I got the hive to the bee yard.

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    I'm guessing those are for mason bees. If so you buy them also. I don;t where or any thing about a ny pricing.
    If you lived close to my FIL you would loose them as he kills them for drilling those holes in his wood work and buildings.

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    What do you mean by "double" screen board

    I love the way you split hives. One question is what do you mean by a double screen board? Do you mean overlapping two 1/8 inch pieces of hardware cloth to make the holes smaller?
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    what's the big jar of water for?

    or, is it something else?

    secondly, what's the best way to store honey? when i buy some it eventually turns crystallized.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mga View Post
    what's the big jar of water for?

    or, is it something else?

    secondly, what's the best way to store honey? when i buy some it eventually turns crystallized.
    just heat it up and the crystals melt away
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    Quote Originally Posted by alleyyooper View Post



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    Gratuitous shot of a Great Lake?

    The bees are fascinating, thanks for sharing!
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