Beekeeping - How To Make A Split To Reduce Swarming

If your hive swarms, it means 50% of your bees will leave with the old queen leaving you with less bees and no queen. This is a natural way bees reproduce in the spring, by making a new colony. This can make beekeeping frustrating for you. Let me show you how ro reduce the chances of this happening. The reproductive swarm tendency in honey bees is impossible to prevent, but we can reduce the chance. Check out my website at: www.honeybeesonline.com Also, please take one of my online beekeeping courses at: www.honeybeesonline.com Check out our complete online beekeeping website at www.honeybeesonline.com or call us at: 217-427-2678

[@tastegeorgia674]

Thank you for these videos. I bought your beiginning beekeeping course because it was impossible to take in person beekeeping classes during lockdown and they have taught me so much, and a video like this just gives me more confidence. I am in Italy so we have different hives *Dadant hives but my biggest worry has been swarming and now I know how to create a split.

[@beek]

Thanks for watching

[@chancedehart4230]

Thanks!

[@beek]

Thanks so much!!

[@backyardbeeandgarden3875]

Hi David, Just installed my four bee packages here in CT. I did have drawn comb which should help. I did not have a marshmallow since the queen did not come with a sugar block. I used painter tape thinking they will chew through it in a day or two. Great video. Thanks for posting. Subscribed.

[@td4190]

Love your videos man. And thank you for all the info thanks to you and a few others. Got my first hive this year and she doing great almost got two full deeps drawn out and population is booming. Thanks and keep it up. Stlouis Mo

[@kevinjackson1840]

david great video.
i am going to do a split tonite, as my bees are begining to be honey bound. lots of nectar coming in from sunny California

[@jweaver7170]

Always good Video's. Have taken several classes.Thanks

[@beek]

Well I appreciate it!

[@daisyshoney6021]

Do you need to check for queen cells on the frames in the new split with the old queen?

[@francinekeane9900]

Hi David another greet video thanks. Is this all you do to prevent swarms? Do you do demaree splits ? I don't want to expand my apiary and want maximum honey production, I saw some one with a configuration of queen right deep brood box, queen excluder, 2 honey supers, queen excluder then another queen right brood box both colonies using the same honey supers. Do you think this would work and what stops the workers from fighting with each other? Thanks Francine

[@beek]

Great question for my livestream tonight. I hope you can join my livestream at 7pm central time tonight. I'll also be giving away 3 of my online classes. Can you make it? Here's the link: ruclips.net/user/liverZyyNg7dGDA

[@francinekeane9900]

@@beek Hi David unfortunately thats 3 am Sydney time keen but not that keen lol. Will it be on you tube to watch later?

[@martinacovey4471]

We are 2nd year beekkeepers. We did a split, only we put a new queen in our new box.. hope our bees don't swarm from old box.

[@hannahcoleman7939]

how often should you be splitting the hive like that to prevent swarming?

[@Max-po5sx]

Great vid 👍

[@papadoudou8090]

Mr Burns, if there is a lot of space in the hive will they still want to swarm? Other than making a new hive do we NEED to split?

[@beek]

There is always a 2nd year hive will swarm even with plenty of room. It's what bees do, they swarm to reproduce and make a new hive.

[@dianerollston9958]

Hi David, if the bees in the old hive raise a queen, will they make more than one, and if so should you do anything about that, like just leave them with one

[@beek]

It will take 30 days to get a laying queen if they raise their own. Sometimes it is better to drop in a mated queen and get the hive moving along faster.

[@1wildwackywoman]

Good info 👍🏼.
Follow up?

[@jweaver7170]

Thanks just in time. Ya know what I mean. haha