Thursday, April 30, 2009

My List to Install New Bees and Split Hive

  • Bring camera!!!!!BRING EMPTY DEEP HIve BODY
  • smoker gather dry wood slivers and kindling --
  • Bring power drill to screw bottom of Nuc temp on.
  • Wire or stuff something in entrance of Nuc.
  • Bungee cord
  • Flowers for Isabel

**** Stop by Isabel for her to bless the bees ****

1. put on bee veil

2. have sugar spray and smoker ready

3. tools

Install New Bees
1. Take off plywood covering entrance of package with HIVE tool

2. Exposes feeder can. Metal should be holding queen cage.

3. Work up can and hold onto queen cage.

4. move can gentle back and forth.

5. bring out queen

6. shake off bees exposing queen - check to make sure she's ok...remember two queens. put one in pocket snugly screen facing you --shake off outside bees before doing this! ack.

7. Installing queen - look for end with mass of sugar candy

8. Remove cork and put a small hole through sugar candy

9. Guide nail in gently so as to not injure queen.

10. The hole in the candy makes it a little more easier for bees to eat through and release the queen.

11. Place queen cage right in the middle of the brood nest.

12. sugar candy part pointing straight up - if worker bee dies she will fall to bottom and not block entrance.

13. insert frame into hive and have two frames removed

14. shake bees into frame.

15. reinsert two frames.

16. push frames tight together

17. put on inner cover.

18. feeder -- pour sugar syrup into green container.


DIVIDING Bees
** Fill up sugar syrup container and place bits of floating wood or screen so bees don't drown

  • Have entrance stuffed with something to keep bees in.
  • Have bungee cord ready.
  • Remove frames - they will go into parent colony.


1. Look for circles of brood

2. 3 frames that have capped brood

3. 1 frame that contains honey and pollen

4. MAKE SURE it doesn't contain queen - isolate queen in empty brood box

5. Look for queen cells - hidden in corner.

6. Place frame with honey and pollen on end.

7. Place brood side by side

8. Shake of brush more bees in if you think you don't have enough bees.

9. Make sure the queen goes back into parent colony.

10. Installing queen - look for end with mass of sugar candy

11. Remove cork and put a small hole through sugar candy

12. Guide nail in gently so as to not injure queen.

13. The hole in the candy makes it a little more easier for bees to eat through and release the queen.

14. Place queen cage right in the middle of the brood nest.

15. sugar candy part pointing straight up - if worker bee dies she will fall to bottom and not block entrance.

16. Separate brood frames and slide her right in the middle. _ Don't worry about destroying some of the wax on the frame. bees will repair.


For parent colony 17. replace removed frames with new

Bring Nuc to new location.


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