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Splitting hives is how beekeepers increase their numbers You can do a split in your own apiary, you just to need to follow some general guidelines Take frames of capped brood covered in nurse bees and put them in the daughter hive. These bees won't leave and go back to the mother hive as half of them aren't even at flying age yet 🐝 If you are doing a walkaway split/pauper split (you're taking away a queen from one of the colonies so they have to make their own) always put the queen in the daugh

Learn how to split your hive with Pete 🐝🙌🏼 Spring is the perfect time to get started with a new colony. If you have a large, healthy hive, it is possible to create a new colony from it by making what is called a split. “Splitting” is a cost-effective way of establishing a new hive and one of the best gifts an experienced beekeeper can give someone new to the hobby. #BeeEducation #hivesplit #hivemaintenance #springmanagement | Flow Hive