The plastic hive has been overflowing with bees for several days. This behavior is due to the high temps but also a bee box that is so overcrowded that the thousands of bees are outside the box 24 hours a day. This hive is past time to split. So I grabbed 5 frames from the top box and inspected the bottom box. The top box had 4 frames of brood and one frame of eggs. I based the split off of these frames. I also noted what appear to be queen emergency cells or supercedure cells already being formed. Not sure why they would be making emergency cells. I will investigate the lower box further for proof of the queen.
The split was transported using the white plastic NUC box and transferred into the 5 frame NUC that was made last week using scrap materials.
