Spring Splits

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.