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« Last post by cao on April 20, 2024, 01:36:33 am »
Well yesterday I caught a swarm that I put in two 8 frame medium boxes because I thought one box wasn't big enough. Then today I started inspecting the hives in that yard. The first several hives I made some splits with eggs to let them make their own queen. Then I ran into a hive that had open Queen cells. Of course, they got spilt. A couple hives later, I ran into a string of 4 hives that had capped queen cells. I think one of them was the hive that through the swarm yesterday. The other three were still packed wall to wall with bees. So, a lot of splitting was done. In the last hive I thought I heard some piping and when I got close to the bottom box, I found a queen cell that hatched. It still had the lid attached, so there was a virgin running around there somewhere. I had to stop early because I ran out of nuc boxes. After all was done, I think I made 3 full box splits and a dozen or so nucs. I need to get some more boxes ready in the morning so I can finish going through those hives in that yard. I'm starting to run out of room to put all the splits. A little over a week ago, I made over 30 splits in my home yard. The bees started early this year and haven't slowed down yet.
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