What do you do if you don't have a friend 2-3 miles away to take your splits to?
Big branch directly in front of hive will help with reorientation. Switch hive position if numbers seem lopsided.
...JP
Quote from: greezykid on March 07, 2010, 05:35:00 PM
What do you do if you don't have a friend 2-3 miles away to take your splits to?
Place your split 10 feet away, put branch in front of exit to force re-orientation. Later deal with drift by switching places with another hive.
Shake in a few extra bees, or face both hives to the old location. www.bushfarms.com/beessplits.htm (http://www.bushfarms.com/beessplits.htm)
Thanks for the help on splitting.
Michael -
Thanks for the interesting and informative link to "how to do splits". Can you please clarify one thing about a walk away split. Can these be moved to a different part of my property after the split is completed or do the nucs need to be positioned like you describe for the even split?