Splitting hive

[Tim Picard]

I'm clearly new at this, as you'll see by my question:

I have a hive with two deep supers (mostly brood) and two medium supers (stacked with honey). There are a jillion bees and brood.

What would happen If I took one deep and one medium super and placed them a couple hundred yards away from the original spot?

Don't be cruel ...

[HAB]

As I understand it.

Make sure you have newly laid larva, pollen, honey, and capped brood in each.
Split everything equally.  The Old Queen will be in one or the other.
The Queenless hive should produce a new Queen.

Then, if all goes well, they will need time to build up before fall.

Wish Ya Luck :)

[bassman1977]

Yep.  No need to put it hundreds of yards away unless you really want to.  Put some branches out in front of the new hive entrance and the bees will reorient on the new location.  Leave the new hive alone for 30 days until the new queen has plenty of time to go through the life cycle and get mated.

Make sure you have newly laid larva, pollen, honey, and capped brood in each.

Fresh eggs are the best but a new queen is even better if you want to go that route.  I let my splits raise their own queens almost every time I split.  Yes for pollen, honey, and brood also.

[asprince]

The above advice worked for me earlier this year.

Steve

[Michael Bush]

http://www.bushfarms.com/beessplits.htm

[metzelplex]

   I just made 4 splits last weekend from three hives  last weekend   and only moved them about ten feet away I took three frames of brood 1 pollen and 1 honey then moved them over and since the brood is covered with young nurse bees in the middle of the day that have never flown so they won't fly back to there original box when they start flying because they don't know any better it works really good for me  hope this helps .     metzelplex

[Tim Picard]

You guys are the best — I can't thank you enough.