Im not sure if I posted this right so here is a second try.
Yesterday my busy hive was bearding in front, back and sides of the hive and
they were humming louder than usual.
I am a little wary of splitting/ moving them to my new horizontal hive,
with so many outside of the hive.
I wonder if I capture the queen and move her into that new hive if that would work.
Any input on this issue?
Cindy
Quote from: Cindy on July 05, 2019, 08:58:47 AM
Im not sure if I posted this right so here is a second try.
Yesterday my busy hive was bearding in front, back and sides of the hive and
they were humming louder than usual.
I am a little wary of splitting/ moving them to my new horizontal hive,
with so many outside of the hive.
I wonder if I capture the queen and move her into that new hive if that would work.
Any input on this issue?
Cindy
I?m not sure but I did watch the following video which came out yesterday concerning washboarding. Though no conclusion was determined for sure, past joking about it. Still was interesting to me.
This fellow took down the hive to see if there was any thing abnormal going on inside.
https://youtu.be/XNFEfTB_3q4
Moving the queen is a good way to do a split. This way you have the strong hive make new queen cells. You should get several. If you have extra queens you could wait until queen cells are capped then harvest and introduce fresh queen. Also this will give hive a short brood break. Some what interrupting mite cycle. With less brood to take care of they can concentrate on foraging, increasing honey production if you are in a flow. I often add ventilation to hive with a top entrance .Shading the hive with oversize foam or something can help bees cool hive.
Any time you split, I recommend taking the queen to the new hive and leaving the foragers with the older hive, so YES, you have the right plan.
Ed posted while I was typing, so sorry for the repeat.