splitting

[greezykid]

What do you do if you don't have a friend 2-3 miles away to take your splits to?

[JP]

Big branch directly in front of hive will help with reorientation. Switch hive position if numbers seem lopsided.


...JP

[Grandma_DOG]

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.

[Michael Bush]

Shake in a few extra bees, or face both hives to the old location.  www.bushfarms.com/beessplits.htm

[greezykid]

Thanks for the help on splitting.

[donm]

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?