reverse Doolittle double split
Fun with lots of bees! I had lots of fun with some of my mentees last night, we did a reverse Doolittle double split. They were reminding me...the nurses and the queen go in the new hive with the open brood that need the nurses. Then the capped brood that we left in the original location will emerge and that hive will have foragers and nurses again. It is great when newer beekeepers really get a new concept. Doing the double The reasons we did this split as a double was two-fold. First there were LOTS of bees in one deep and two mediums. And second, there were both open and capped queen cells. If we had left the open and the capped queen cells together, the colony could have sent an after-swarm. Of course, we could have killed all the younger cells, and this is what we did when they were together on a frame with older ones. We also found the queen and moved her. We didn't have to find the queen, because we we...
