Today I inspected one of my hives and discovered four queen cells, two were capped. I decided to take one of the frames with a nice cell on it and nurse bees and put them in a five frame nuc. I added emerging brood and pollen stores. Two frames have drawn empty brood cells. On top I added a five frame medium super with two full frames of honey and the rest with empty comb. I took a good amount of workers from the same hive, and placed the nuc about a 1/2 mile away on another location. Since the greater amount of brood was in the upper deep of the original hive, I reversed the deeps. I guess will wait and see what happens. I also removed the other queen cells. Humm...wondering if that was a good move.
David
Sounds like a plan.
You might also open up the brood nest.
http://www.bushfarms.com/beesswarmcontrol.htm
Ok, yes I will look around in it again. That hive is really strong. Whats cool is they have a nice temperament. Hopefully I don't loose that trait in the split. I visually checked the split this morning and the activity looks good. I put them under an apple tree...LOL.
Way to go Depence. Sounds like everything is going well your way. How did the Russians turn out?
Dennis