In this livestream, Pete takes us through the step-by-step process on how to split your hive come Spring.
Each topic covered is bookmarked:
- Brood Box Preparation
- What makes a good frame for a split?
- Why you don’t want many drones in your split
- Capped brood and why it’s good for a split
- How many frames do I split?
- Drone filled brood frame example
- Backfilling and swarms
- If you miss the queen, leave a frame with eggs in parent hive
- Space management in beekeeping
- When would you inspect the hive again after the split?
- Spotting the queen in a hive split
- How to configure your blank frames in the new split
- Cross comb, foundation vs comb guides
- Queen cup example and an explanation
- How to avoid bees returning to their parent hive
- Adding new brood frames to the parent hive
How have your hive splits gone? Was it a breeze, or did you have some big standout lessons to do differently next time? We’d love to hear about your experience