🔎 Inspections & Splits

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The bees were grumpy and we did a couple of splits and hopefully can change queens on a few hives. They need some better straight for a better temperament. We made it through 3 of the 4 Hives. We did 25 first as we knew it would be the biggest, and sure enough, she was full of swarm cells. So we found her (no small feat) and got her set aside on the first stand with a couple of frames of brood to get a fresh start. We were able to harvest a couple of frames of cells, so Hive 25 and Hive 15 have them. Hopefully, they are successful, and her genetics will start populating. So, we got 3 of them split and we just did a precursory top box tip-up to check for queen cells. We'll finish them up on Saturday when we have a bit more time.


Stand 1

Stand 2

11

13

14

15

21

24

25

Queen from 25 (Originally 23) with a few frames of brood and some shook in nurse bees.

Q: Spotted

Brood: New 3F's

Stores: Light-Feed

Temp: A

Calm: A

Split moving queen to 14. Left in "walk away split fashion" Check back on Sat and tear down sealed QC's.

Q: None (4 weeks)

Brood: 5F's

Stores: Light-Feed

Temp: B

Calm: B

Split from 13, 5F Nuc for sale. Bees are agreesive check back.

Q: Re-marked

Brood: 4F's

Stores: Light-Feed

Temp: B

Calm: B

Split moving queen to 14. Used frame from 25 containin (2) swarm cells on top of DSB with 3F's of brood and shook in nurse bees. Bottom box has rest of brood and left in "walk away split fashion" Check back on Sat and tear down sealed QC's.

Q: None (4 weeks)

Brood: 5F's

Stores: Light-Feed

Temp: B

Calm: B

Just tipped-up checked. No swarm cells spotted.

Q:

Brood:

Stores:

Temp:

Calm:

Split from 15, 5F Nuc for sale. Bees are agreesive check back.

Q: Re-marked

Brood: 4F's

Stores: Light-Feed

Temp: B

Calm: B

Swarm preps, split. Artificial swarm with Queen moved to 11, left with (2) swarm cells.

Q: None (3 weeks)

Brood: $F's

Stores: Light-Feed

Temp: 2

Calm: 2

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