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I came out of last winter with one hive. After splits 'n' swarms I ended summer with 3 and gave 1 away. I have merged a smaller swarmed hive with its stronger originator hive. Both Q laying well, so i just put one on top of the other with paper in the hope that the bees would sort it out (...

On 1/5/23 I made a vertical split of my surviving overwintered hive. After 6 days i inspected to check for QC,and had a slight panic and added a frame of eggs/larvae. Today the split swarmed. I caught it and rehoused it in a new hive. On inspecting, original hive is bouncing and has 2 supers...

I did a split last week, all going well.Went in after 5 days to check for QC, there were 2 on 1 frame and I could see large larva in one so only a day or so from capping. Unfortunatly the cells were were slightly bonded ro the adjacent frame so got slightly damaged when i removed the frames to...

Last week I inspected my 2 hives and both bouncing and packing out the supers. I inspected today to find brood and eggs above the QE in the super. I can only assume Q was on QE last week and ended up on the wrong side. My bad. I have put QE above super to create brood + 1/2, with empty super on...

I split a large hive in to two last week. The queen remained with the original hive and the idea was for the new hive to raise a new queen from the brood/ egg frames. After 5 days I checked both hives. Original had eggs, brood and larvae, no QC.. New hive had 2 closed supercedure cells( middle...