Month: April 2023

The largest and most successful hive will be split twice. The overwinter hive is extremely crowded with brood and eggs everywhere and an abundance of workers. Perfect candidate for splitting. The queen and three Frames of brood and resources were moved to a new nuclear box. A queenless split with 4 frames with brood and resources were moved to a 5 frame NUC. The original hive was left queenelss with multiple frames of eggs.

Original Mother Colony Hive.

Queenright 3 frame split.

Queenless 4 frame split.

4 hives survived winter in the Niagara colonies. These 2 of the hives are looking extremely strong. While some still need some strengthening. All of the loose sugar on the top of the hives was consumed. So, keep doing that.

The 007 hive was split to strengthen the next door hive. The next door hive had a queen but almost no surviving workers. The newspaper method with 4 frames of brood and nurse bees was moved over. The neighboring hive had an open screened entrance but this was not enough ventilation. A few handfuls of workers died. More ventilation is needed.