# How to split your hive?

**URL:** <https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/how-to-split-your-hive/40614>\
**Category:** Flow Beekeeping Live with Cedar\
**Created:** [September 4, 2026, 4:50am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/how-to-split-your-hive/40614 "2026-09-04T04:50:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![bija](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@bija](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/bija)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2026, 4:50am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/how-to-split-your-hive/40614/1 "2026-09-04T04:50:57Z")

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[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/honeyflow/original/3X/d/7/d784b39bd99e2322651d66a629bb04f97d879535.jpeg "How to split your hive?") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuGsjxZzINM&t=1203s)

This live Q&A focuses on spring hive management and making hive splits to reduce brood-box congestion and lower the risk of swarming.  
The process involves moving several brood frames, ideally containing plenty of brood, eggs and nurse bees, into a new brood box. If the split has eggs or a developing queen cell, the bees can raise their own queen; alternatively, a purchased queen can be introduced. It’s important to leave the original queen with the parent colony where possible, and to ensure the new split has enough nurse bees and food stores to establish itself. The discussion also covers positioning a new hive, considering bee flight paths, sunlight and hive orientation, as well as keeping frames centred and properly spaced.

The Q&A also covers a range of common beekeeping topics, including how to prevent swarming without creating another hive, feeding stored honey frames safely without encouraging robbing, naturally drawn comb versus foundation, identifying queens and different types of brood, and why Flow Frames may take time for bees to start using. Other questions cover seasonal timing for splits, wax moth in the tray, planting flowers for bees and native pollinators, keeping Flow Hives in urban or rooftop locations, and managing Varroa mites with treatments such as oxalic and formic acid.