How To Split A Beehive Without Finding The Queen

How To Split A Hive Without Finding The Queen

In this video I show you how to split bees without the queen, how to make a nucleus colony and how to make splits if you can't find your queen. Making splits without finding the queen is a great way to make increase in the apiary.

How to Split My Beehive is a really important skill as it allows you to make increase within the apiary without buying nucleus colonies. Splitting beehives allows you to turn one beehive into four/five beehives and you can increase numbers very rapidly.

Sometimes you need to make splits without swarm cells and you need to make splits without finding the queen. This is my preferred method as it allows you to add mated queens to colonies which then build up rapidly without finding the original queen.

In this video I show you how to split beehives and my favourite method for splitting beehives. If you want to see how I split my beehives then watch this video.

Splitting beehives is an effective way to make increase in the apiary if you are looking to increase the number of beehives you manage.

Learning how to split beehives is an excellent use of resources as it isn't too detrimental to the donor colony. How to split a beehive is a common question asked when beekeepers are looking to make increase in their apiary.

Making splits with mated queens can reduce the amount of time taken to get the nucleus to maturity as it means you aren't reliant on good weather for queen mating.

In this video I show you how to split a beehive using a mated queen. Once you have split a beehive you need to add a queen or queen cell to the queen less part of the beehive split.

Making increase with mated queens is a great way to build numbers up very quickly as the nucs can build up to strength and can be split again before the season has finished.

Two frame splits made with emerging brood, should be mature within 4-6 weeks after releasing the queen and a single cycle of brood.

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