Honey flow South East QLD

[Dan2]

No queens available in West Australia!?

I like to try to get as even a split as possible and this is the way I do it. I always wait till I see swarm cells but you can do this beforehand as a sort of pre-emptive swarm control. I move the parent box at least 3 metres away. In the place of the original colony I put a brood box of drawn comb (you can have half drawn half foundation if you are short). I take out a frame with open brood and shake the bees off it; make sure there are NO QUEEN CELLS. I put this into the middle of the new b…

@cathiemac

-can’t find anything on your specific situation but found this old post from @dee which descibes a slightly different approach…might help now or in the future.

I know this is too late for your situation but I believe she has also said to go in 4 days after doing the split to choose an open queen cell but I’m still researching old posts on the subject.