Splitting a Hot Hive Questions

[beepro]

As long as your split hives are rather weak then the foragers/guard bees will not bother you.  Keep them small so they cannot get mean.  No guard bees to sting you.

On your splits, be sure to have enough mated queen to requeen them all.  It will be another month or 2 before the mean guard bees are dead.   Dividing them is to weaken the hive so that not many guard bees are issued. 

[rockink]

Today I checked on all 5 of my hives. I found the queen in 3 of them. My 2 marked Italian queens were doing great. Both are laying and seemed content. I spotted my first unmarked queen in another hive.

My other 2 hives, I found eggs in one and the other was pissy so I left the one alone.

So only beeing a beek for about 1.5mo I will take this as a huge win!!

-Rockin K







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[moebees]

Today I checked on all 5 of my hives. I found the queen in 3 of them. My 2 marked Italian queens were doing great. Both are laying and seemed content. I spotted my first unmarked queen in another hive.

My other 2 hives, I found eggs in one and the other was pissy so I left the one alone.

So only beeing a beek for about 1.5mo I will take this as a huge win!!

-Rockin K

Good deal.  The bees usually work things out if we let them.







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