Fast easy way to do a bee hive split, no lost bees

Fast and easy way to do a bee hive split, no lost bees.
This is the best and easiest technique there is on splitting a honey bee colony. Many techniques require Shaking bees on the ground letting the nurse bees walk in , this can be traumatizing on the bees, and kill the larvae by drowning in the royal jelly. Try this for yourself and see.
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[@jpthedelawarebeeman6239]

I wish I were closer - That's cool you do that David.

[@donnieporter7890]

Super cool video thank u for sharing your knowledge

[@scottpierson7495]

I made my first queen watching your Videos. She’s laying good as well sir. But Now I have Wax moths that have destroyed some nice frames!! Really upsets me because now her bee larvae and eggs are being effected I went ahead and cut out the comb that was effected. The laid right in the pollen that was stored up against the eggs and Larvae! What can I do Now! What a Dam mess maybe you can do a Video on the mess the wax Moth makes

[@climb315]

Thank you. When do you use starter strip frames or frames with full wax foundations

[@user-fh3gm2xg3m]

i hate bees but idk why i love watching your videos ever since i saw you stick your hand in a colony of angry bees because they hate their queen ksjsksjsskj

[@storm3772]

excellent

[@XIntoxicationalX]

Hope your coffee bee chat goes well!!

[@jah2440]

Thank you for this video, well done as always! Where can i get the hivetop feeder for 5 frame nucs? I didn't notice them on your website. Appreciate you!

[@BeekeeperUK]

Just a quick question if you have time 😊 can you show or quickly answer here. What good economical style do you recommend to give bees air when selling on a nuc box. Iam presuming yours have solid bottoms. Enjoying as always your videos from the UK.

[@temijinkahn511]

My bees keep closing up my beetle barns. Any suggestions on how to keep them open for the beetles?

[@bikingoverlongdistancebold1204]

Great video, but what about the older foragers and acceptance of a new queen. Do you only use a mated queen with older foragers, or have you tried a Virgin Queen or Queen Cell with older foragers, and what was the acceptance rate. Thanks.

[@kevinsummitt5902]

Dave ... New beekeeper South GA ... I have lost 3 hives to hive beetles. what bait do you use? I have seen boric acid & Crisco ... but this doesn't look like that ... someone mentioned below Combat? Please advise.

[@davidhaught84]

Yes combat, it works great.

[@jrmars5434]

I noticed the beetle bait is Combat. What happened to the boric acid tablets shown in a previous video? Did those not work out?

[@larryehrlich8702]

Have you experimented with Puting 2 Beatle traps in the hive at opposite ends of the box? Has it increased the beetle kill rate?

[@user-cp2sx8gp2z]

I'm going to start using beetle barns one on top too because I mostly see beetles on top of hive.

[@lauraslifejourney238]

So when do we start our hives in 2020? Do we need to put a deposit down to speak for bees?

[@PapaBee165]

What’s the best method to build up my hive going into spring? I want to have some honey this year.

[@mmb_MeAndMyBees]

Build up Wax (Comb building) give them 1:1 Syrup. To get frames built up with Wax Cells, to Max Brood laying. Build up Bees give them 1.3 Sugar to 1 Water Syrup. (Faux Nectar to feed up the young.) Some also give small Bee Colonies a Pollen Patty on the Frames, to build up to. (If lots of natural pollen is coming in with a big Bee population, they will ignore that patty ! But if their isn't the workforce to bring this flower pollen in, a patty will boost up Bee numbers big time...) 💪 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

[@tmcuevs7988]

how long til they fill up the box with bees?

[@George-nx5lo]

Can you do a split and move to a new location then introduce a new queen to the split? I got a double deep extremely strong colony and cant find the queen, there are more bees than ive ever seen, just to hard for me to find her... but the clone was location an hour away, I moved 5 frames to the nuc and plan on introducing the mated queen tomorrow morning, well at least putting her in the hive inside cage... I dk if this will work and could use some advice. The double deep somehow didnt have swarm cells, but they would have swarmed reallly soon.

[@buildingwithtrees2258]

You can shake all the bees down to the bottom box. Have a few frames of brood in the top. Put an excluder on, then you know the top has no queen, has nurse bees, and is ready for a queen.

[@morgansmith7351]

Do you have to split hives? Like do they eventually just grow too big for the brood boxes? Or will they limit their own growth rates to keep from over expanding?

[@liansanham1198]

They will throw off swarms to reduce colony size. If they do that you lose your queen and alot of bees.

[@user-cp2sx8gp2z]

They also take a lot of honey with them when they swarm.

[@jamosteph]

David. Love your videos. Gonna order a mated queen from you this week. I emailed through the site but havent gotten a response yet. I assume splitting a 10 frame is the same as a 5 frame just double...correct?

[@jamosteph]

Also, you stated you dont have to move it too far away. Would say...20 feet be enough and angle the entrance a different way?

[@BESHYSBEES]

Jamie Sisler I put it just next to the donor hive just face the entrance the opposite direction, new queen new hive location

[@joeybabineaux6426]

Dave what type of bait do you use? I have used crisco and boric acid

[@loganfs5640]

That's a good top about only using a few frames and bees. If they don't make it you aren't out much.

[@munibungbeeking1719]

So we have don the fat bee man Joe May the skinny bee man And David the muscle bee man

[@cluelessbeekeeping1322]

@@davidhaught84 Maybe make a bee video where you grunt and paint your body green like the Hulk, cutoffs + scraggly hair? For Halloween? "Hulk Smash Small Hive Beetles!"

[@docash2107]

Video? How to clean a hive body???

[@temijinkahn511]

How can you tell if your queen is mated?

[@davidhaught84]

Look for eggs. They look like tiny grains of rice in center of the cell sticking straight up day one.

[@stephenransleben2318]

Do the bees from separate hives fight with each other especially when introducing bees to an established queen?

[@BESHYSBEES]

Yes but not always, use a sheet of newspaper between hive bodies by the time they chew through they smell the same to each other, You can Put a drop of vanilla essence in a small spray bottle and lightly spray the newspaper( bees hate vanilla )

[@stephenransleben2318]

Was asking because I don't see him using newspaper or vanilla sugar water spray in this vid.

[@charlessteed8938]

I moved frame of bees from one hive to the next (to quickly increase bees in a colony, primarily nurse bees)with no problems...usually just a fame...any forager bees fly back..never used a cover scent...

[@doctortcbkk2027]

Won’t the bees left behind follow to where the queen went?

[@cluelessbeekeeping1322]

Bumble Bee @ 2:41

[@JessicaSmith-dy8kc]

How do you get over your fear of 🐝 s I just can't every time one gets close to me I have to get up and move somewhere else it's the same with wasp and hornet's and any kind of flying bug except ladybugs and lightning bugs lol

[@heathknudsen3866]

How late in the year can you do splits and will the survive over winter in nuc boxes?

[@olddave4833]

this is actually for southern keepers and southern things don't always work in the north.

[@fizykdupa]

Did you every consider buying a camera that can be mounted on the head? That way you would have two free hands during videos :-)

[@PaulHigginbothamSr]

It's funny as I was thinking about disrupting the larva by shaking the frames. I didn't think about drowning in royal jelly. but drowning is drowning. I was just wondering about even in the pupal stage what does shaking do to the bee forming inside? It can't be good. So I appreciate this thinking. Even when I do oxalic acid, what does that do to the larval stage bees? See we humans are much more susceptible to chemicals and such while in the first trimester. It has got to be where humans get the wrong chemical messages where boys think they are girls or vice versa. That wiring is just either or, and I would bet the wrong wiring is really easy to mess up even with something common since the space race, teflon. We all have it in our tissues, and no telling really what it does during critical gestation moments.

[@donnieporter7890]

If you are just feeding bees with suger water os ther anyway to get a queen for the bees your feedjng in 4months ive went from feeding 500 bees to 10.000 bees

[@loganfs5640]

If you crowd them they should make queen cells.

[@donnieporter7890]

@@loganfs5640 this is out in the open i have no boxes should i get a box or 2

[@JM-nd4kt]

@@donnieporter7890 of you are feeding honeybees sugar syrup in the open then getting a hive is pointless and you will never get a queen excepted as they are only foraging on what you are providing for them to eat. It is not possible to start a hive this way. Feeding them sugar syrup in summer is probably contaminating someone's honeycrop nearby anyway and is not necessarily a help to either the bees or the beekeeper who owns the bees you are feeding. You would do better to catch a swarm or just provide a water source for the bees as they need water to keep the hive cool and to help rear the brood or baby bees.

[@donnieporter7890]

@@JM-nd4kt i had a hive n a tree for 12yrs and the tree was gonna fall so i cut it and laid it down and 2 weeks later i had a bee guy come and he was suppose to get them and not destroy them but all he could say is these bees are the most docile bees and he tore the hive up and it was huge anyway he didnt get the queen but he sucked up alot n his vac.. so since this happened 2yrs ago i felt so bad ive been feeding these bees by this tree and ther is a ton of bees not sure if im doing the right thing but it was terrible what he did he almost didnt make it out of the yard he destroyed it and i had no clue on what to do so ive been watching these videos to learn

[@tmfeldman3990]

I've got a hive of bees about the size of a bowling ball, can I sell that? It's got a ton of bees on it.

[@bub1683]

Clock is ticking in sweden

[@OklahomaBeekeeper]

My cat sunbathers on the top of one of my 10 frame hives. But they do nail my black German shepherd David I leave the queen in her spot, with one frame and move the other frames, so all the forgers go back to her. Then I have nurse bees with the new queen and I can shack a frame and give it back to the old queen. I think the nurse bees except the new queen better. Just my opinion. I was smashing Beatles today and changed out Beatle barns myself.

[@joer5627]

Donuts!

[@jacey..s]

Early?

[@ScottIsMyName]

Remind me what you use for bait in your barns.

[@livingadamman7994]

I notice you spray roundup weed killer around your hives to stop grass growing, and I notice your boxes are cheap particle board which is glued with formaldehyde and out-gasses, that seems to work for you and I understand that gives you time and resources for other things, we all do things different there's as many approaches as there is bee keepers. I like the way you do the splits. Someone holding the camera would make things much easier for you to make a quicker video and get your point across and show more detail with camera as you wouldn't have to multi task

[@scorpio352]

Dave i would suggest a tripod to hold your camera or phone and your able to talk to us much better bud

[@dugnantz6140]

scorpio352 he’s got one. Didn’t you see it on the hive stand 🤣🤣

[@stephaniadawn]

@@dugnantz6140 you tube needs the lol buttons like fb

[@sierrabravo7368]

I thought all bees were bumble bees

[@arbrog]

gah 360p

[@alblakesley511]

David haught i own Russian honeybee's and I have no Hive Beattles in any of my Hives

[@JM-nd4kt]

Are you serious about picking 200 queens a week? How many mating hives are you running then. It takes a full month to produce a queen and not every queen returns. Are you sure you aren't buying most of your queens in.