How We Split Colonies, 2022 

With the method you did right at the end, how do you know if the original queen is in the top or the bottom brood box when splitting them?

Makes me want to climb out of this snow bank to work bees!

Sure love seeing all the guys working together! Nothing but smiles watching:) Great seeing Molly and Angela in there too!

Enjoy and learn so much from your videos. Thanks to you and your wonderful team 🙏

Thank you so much for this video. I am down to only one hive here in Wisconsin and will use the queen excluder method to build back up. That is when Mother Nature is in a better mood! 😊🐝

Wow!! A shout out from that southern rock star beekeeper! THAT MADE MY MORNING 2nd cup of COFFEE worth it☕️

Love watching this. I see it as preparation studies for when I get enough colonies to go commercial :)

Thank for sharing this method of splitting bees. Good info even for the experienced beekeeper. Thanks Mr Bob.

Top information from all of your videos. I have to watch each a couple of times. Thank you very much 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Thank you for showing, Bob. Those are some beefy nucs. Your customers must be happy, I sure would be.

Man such a talented and wise man Bob is . A great crew to boot … That is a dream to get to that level ( says me with only two hives )

Good looking colonies, Bob! Regarding the brood in the bottom box, are you leaving mostly capped brood for your 3 frames or mostly mixed stages? Since you said you’ll give them another 2 gallons of feed after the split to ramp up laying, I assume it’s a lot of capped in the bottom box that would hatch and allow the queen to backfill? As always, love your videos!

Hey Bob hope all is well! Quick question: How long before the honey flow do you leave three frames of brood to allow the colony to build back up to full force? Appreciate your videos and all that you do. -An Ohio Beekeeper

Hey Bob great video as always! Curious why you have 2 holes in your nuc lids. Is it simply to be able to give them more feed at a time? I love the nuc boxes you built what a bonus for your customers buying them!

Hope Sadler 1 day ago @Bob Binnie As it turned out, after I put a coat of paint inside the hole it's too tight, so I'll get a 71 mm. Another question, in the video you mentioned leaving 3 frames of brood. How long would it take for them to be ready for the flow? Would adding thin syrup and a pollen patty be helpful? Thanks as always Bob.

@Bob Binnie What happens to the new colony if you do not introduce a new queen??

Bob, if you have an exceptionally strong colony do you ever put two double screened dividers and two hive bodies above the parent colony? It seems that it would work if there were sufficient initial resources.

Question for you Mr Binnie. If I have a laying worker can I place a hive on top with a good laying queen with paper in between to save the other colony

So each original hive gets 3 frames of brood and the queen under a queen excluder, everything else goes above the queen excluder. Come back a few days later and make nucs with what is above the excluder. The remaining hive with the old queen is able to build up enough to still make over 100 pounds of honey? Do I understand this right??

Thanks Bob,very helpful! Do you have to worry about water in the bottoms of the hives on the pallets that are rear tilted?

March 28th and we haven’t even opened our hives yet. Ugh

What are your thoughts on using deep frames that have previously had amitraz in them?

After three days of the brood being above the excluder are you concerned about the start of queen cells? My concern is they might reject your cell or mated queen and make their own.

Bob how long should i wait to go in my new nuc after i put in bigger box?

What is entrance orientation when using the double screen board on 4way pallet. I could see in video one entrance facing same as lower box but couldn't see the entrance on the one next to it.

Do you have a video on how you make the plywood nucs?

Great as always Mr Bob. Wanted to know who these new folks are? Also, have you ever sold nucs and asked the customers to return the box?

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Jealous to see there the season start already

Where can we get a nuke?

The girl with the smoker at the begining looks like she just wants to stick that smoker in everyone's face. She looks like she's up to mischief

5-10% winter loss and 100 pound average on a spring flow in GA is amazing. I’m surprised everyone isn’t copying your methods, although it appears to require intensive management. Looks like your in your colonies a lot.

I made the cut!! Lol. Words can not express how Thankful I am to you for allowing me to “tag along” and soak up all of your knowledge! Also, Thank you to the guys, they are an awesome crew!

Great information as always. Thanks for sharing Bob. Like the Tape on the Queen candy trick!

Thank you. 🫡

Always a treat to watch and learn from your videos Sir. Thanks for putting together great content. Great team you’ve got there and fun to watch you all work together seamlessly.

Bob the bee builder hard at it!

Worth to watch more than one while waiting new video 😊😊

That red pollen of Lamium purpureum is very good for bees, it grows like dough. Greetings from Serbia

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on the topic of being under high voltage lines, i had my couple of hives almost directly under some for about 2 years, and never noticed any problems with them. mating was fine, and they produced a lot of honey at that spot... until the power company told me i had to move them to cut down the weeds.

Wow I would have loved to have been able to get to purchase some of those nuc wood boxes . My nucs boxes have just about seen there last days . It’s always a pleasure to watch your crew work. Everyone knows what everyone else is doing an you get it done. Thanks

Great video! Very well edited and informative. Going to try using your double screen splitting method this year. Best of luck, thanks Bob.

Great way of doing it! Love your videos Bob!! 👍🏻👍🏻

Bob, your knowledge of bees amazes me!

I think it makes for nice looking nucs. :) Blessed Days...

I'm on a Bob binnie marathon watch it again mood. Lol. When it warms up I'm going in a split mode here in NC. Thanks again Bob!

When I buy a five frame nuc I want to see it packed with bees . All sides and top of frames covered with bees . I’m a stickler for that . The man I buy nucs from allows me to pick which ones I want . I find that the best way to get a hive started fast . If I pay $200 for a nuc then I need to get the best deal . I love to watch your methods and use them in many management practices. I have one colony that has stored twenty pounds of honey in a super already and our flows really haven’t begun yet. Black cherry , black berry , wild rose , privet and poplar haven’t started blooming yet.

Thanks for the Video Bob. I pulled girls from shed but this last few days has went back to a chill and some snow. They have what they need to make it till warms back up in 40s and they fly again. Cant wait till i can get stung a few as it helps with pain i think. Take car

Cheeseboard is the way to go! I build all my lids, double screen boards, honey supers, and bottom boards out of it. It holds together great and the price is right!

It’s. to the high voltage lines that bother them it’s the 5 & 6G masts that’s killing the bees.

Hi Bob, instead of adding a deep after the split, can we just add medium supers instead for the honey flow leaving the bottom deep just for a brood nest, then add back a deep after the flow?

Hey Bob, may I ask what is painted black on the beehive lid? Will the black color cause the temperature to be higher?

It is nice to see the bees and green grass! our snow is just going off.

Thanks for sharing your valuable wisdom Bob 👍🏼.... I successfully used the method of using a queen excluder to make my first split last spring. It was real easy. Didn't need to shake any bees. Cheers from NJ USA

Beekeeping the right way is work and people wonder why raw local honey is expensive

Love your vid as ND here in Malta me and my grandpa use you vids for advise

Going to check on queens above DSB today. Thanks for all the knowledge.

Wish I was local, I would have liked to volunteer to help out with the splits at UGA ☺️

Bob, my electric fencer says not to put the fence under parallel power lines. Could that be an issue?

Hello Bob. Great video. I'll be introducing most of the queens. That I purchase from you in a few weeks. Into some of my honey production colonies. I think you should do a video on that.

Fantastic Beekeeping Operation fab Bob 🐝🐝👌 I follow you operation from day one my Beekeeping and I put some of this in my jards and works really well 🐝🐝 🍯🐝😉 Thank you for your share information Bob Sebastian

Need to design a shirt that says "shake vigorously, not violently!"

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Bob, with all the places you have bees, I just curious how you keep people from stealing them??

When make splits with an over overwinter hive, what is the minimum brood frames should you leave in that hive?

I love this! This is such a great way of making splits. One beauty of this method is that when you remove the brood and place it into a queenless hive, the bees might make emergency cells. With this method, however, you can "age out" the brood above that QE so there are no larvae that are young enough for emergency cells. Of course, this isn't what you're doing in this video. Thanks for showing this, Bob!

So informative!! Thanks Mr Binnie. Waiting on the next one. God bless from Texas.

you must have to put new springs under those trucks ever month, they look loaded with just the tools and boxes

Foodie Broody, I learn something from every video LoL 👍 thanks Bob, good health and God bless 👍

Love ❤️ your videos Mr Binnie.... saw you at the Hive Life Conference... but, didn’t get a chance to say Hello 👋

Excellent video. Thank you.

You are blessed to have such a great crew of employees. Thanks for the valuable information. Watching drinking from BRHC ☕️ cup!

Why not place pollen traps. Does their situation affect the bees?

Always a pleasure to watch your videos bob .

Sir can u make a split with only one frame of brood? Or is it to small?

Thanks for the video, Bob.

Hi Bob, when you speak of a frame of food, does it matter if it is crystallised capped honey or if it should be runny honey which is capped or with the preference be for uncapped fresh incoming nectar?

You ser are best of the best. Young in mind and full of knowlige. I learned a lot from you, and I m still learning.

What kind of yellow do you use on some of your deeps?

I love the videos u make they are great I have learned a lot from u. I could sit and watch them all day long. My bees look the best I have ever seen them yes I had loss and yes some came out weak but the equalizing has made almost all my hives into production hives this looks like it is going to be the best year for honey I have ever had U Bob are just a wonderful person to make them to teach me and others the art and science of keeping the bees thank u so much again Have a blessed week

Do you always want to move nucs to another yard? What happens if they stay at the current yard?

Where do you get your feeder buckets?

Those boxes look really nice!

Great video Bob as always

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Great to see some additions to the crew. We split hives in many different ways, depending on our intended outcome, but use many of the same techniques as you. Your videos are always informative. We appreciate the masking tape trick. It will be useful when our candy making isn’t quite perfect and save time removing the caps for the jzbz cage. Thanks for sharing that.

Probably should have said how many days can you let it go

Hey Bob, ran into a scenario I haven’t experienced yet…. Saw a dozen or so bees on the ground covering a queen 100’ from my apiary. Scoop her up put her in a clip and made a 3 frame nuc and released her to experiment. Mite washed a few other hives later that day and found a colony with a deep & medium followed by a excluder then 2 supers on top. The super above the excluder was honey and the super above that was 10 frames of solid capped brood (pretty impressive). There were thousands of bees around me so I didn’t get a chance to get to the bottom box to look for the queen/eggs/larvae…. I’m assuming the queen left through the vent hole on top… if I don’t find her/eggs/larvae and no queen cells, can I add a frame of stick eggs from another hive so they can build some queen cells? How would ya handle this scenario? Thanks!

Bob, Scott here from Northern California, the Timing box you built me is working great, what is the type of wood that was used to build bottom and top of that timing box? Amazing how heavy and well built. Thank you Sir.

Thanks Bob,I'm wondering in how much time they will get to peak population and probably swarm if you just add second deep box above and didn't split them?

With the price and availability of HDO(I can not find any in Kansas City),are you still making your double screen boards with HDO? If not, what’s your next best material?

Hi and greetings from New Zealand. Bob, I love your videos, I am going into my second year as a beekeeper and have used the double screen boards this winter with good success. My question is; do the glass jars cause a fire risk in dry conditions, I guess I could put an empty deep over them?

Bob, do you know if bees need to produce more wax making natural drawn comb vs building out from foundation? Does foundation somehow give the bees a head start on building out wax?

It looks and sounds as if you are adding the equivalent of 2 1/2 to 3 frames of brood to nucs you plan to sell in 3 weeks. Is that correct and are they on the verge of being too big by the time you sell them?

Will honey bees thrive on the pollen from Pine trees? This source of pollen is available by the pound for the taking and would greatly reduce my expenses in feeding. Thanks for another great video!

Hey Bob, In the mother colony, are you replacing the frames with all drawn comb or mixed with foundation. Thank you.

Beautiful video, thank you for sharing your knowledge. One question: if you harvest honey from the first box/ super where you allowed them to move up temporarily, is it ok to harvest from that comb? You don’t worry about residue from cocoons and brood?

Beekeeping isn't easy as a young hobby beekeeper, but you help keep me going. I almost quit after my 3rd year, but the things I've learned from you brought me out of that and have given me hope. Thank you for sharing so much from candles to splitting to pest management through RU-vid. I always look forward to your video. Jason in Upper East Tennessee

Bob do you get much propolius with your Caucasian hives.I had one years ago but they made it really hard to work the hive, so much bee glue. thanks