SPLITTING BEES | EASY & CHEAP | w/ Queen Cells 

Hello Bruce all looked good on our end . Hope you get 100 percent take . I need to do several soon . I do not have any emergency colonies set a side right now. Thanks

I've got to do several splits this weekend, I truly hope they go as good as you have show us.. Another Great Video!!

If you hadn't told me there were technical difficulties I wouldn't have known. The video was awesome anyway!!

Hey Bruce love your work I used to be so frustrated by locating queens, especially if in a mongrel hive. An old timer told me he noticed my eyes were all over the place. He told me to read the frame like a book. Start reading from the top left and across to the right. Duplicating as if fine lines of text. Even she drops a line or 2 your eye will catch it, as well as if she is being ushered around. I became so thrilled at time and stress I reduced. Hope the splits all take, a real thrill

Splits are Looking good Bruce hope they all work out

So I’m not the only one who loves brood on fresh wax. It’s just beautiful to me.

Good to see your bee season off to a great start. Looking forward to watching this bee season!!

Looking good Bruce, anytime you do a split it means that you are growing your apiary.

Greetings from Utah Brother Bruce! I know this is an older video but still wanted stop in and say thanks for the content. I'm a second year noobie with only one backyard hive and was lucky enough to get my hive through the ridiculous winter here in Utah. So now I'm here trying to figure out what to do next. I've signed up for the Apprentice program through the University of Montana Beekeeping program and roam my favorite RU-vidrs as much as I can. I'm trying to learn as much as I can. I had a video idea and I apologize if you've already done a video like this but I think it would be cool the next time you want to make a video regarding splits to record a different way of doing a split with each hive in the same video. It would be a logistical nightmare as far as recording/editing maybe but life is always more interesting with a little challenge. I don't even know how many different techniques are out there to split a hive but I know there's a lot. Could a person make a video of doing 10 or 20 different split techniques (is there that many ways or more?). Best of luck to you and your family this year and honey season. Thank you for all your time and energy you put into your awesome channel. -Rojo

Video was fine to me, had to chuckle a little when those bees hit you at the last, I've had those days.

Those little rascal bees are always changing our plans.

Great video. Don't you just love how that one bee will harass you and never give up. I sure do. Thanks for sharing.

The video turned out great. Don't be too hard on yourself. Btw... Our bee keepers club just agreed to buy 1 or maybe 2 of those LOROB BEES OXALIC ACID VAPORIZERS... As hobbyists with 1-8 hives it was an easy decision to share amongst us... Great give away.

Looks Good Bruce Sir. 1 thing i didnt like about jacket was hood cant be removed and replaced? I always have to replace hood 1 or 2 times a year lol. Why is i never use it and hood gets demolished in truck LOL or i just set hood over head because i hate face stings. Way i always do my splits. Fast and easy. Ever see the RED Cell protectors? They are nice and also protect the cell from bee cutting into side as they do every so often

Great video buddy thanks for sharing your bees are doing well buddy. I hope your splits work out for you. Hope you have a great weekend.

Ever have to open a hive up from a log? We took a big tree down last year and saved the hive within a large secondary trunk. 10-12" in diameter. They made it through winter. They are actively foraging now. Southern Indiana here. Thanks! Love your videos!

Hope the queens do good for you Bruce

What are your thoughts on using those black gloves? We recommend not using black gloves. We use orange mechanics plastic gloves. They work really well.

Thanks Bruce for making videos, they are so very helpful and well done. It did make me chuckle when the 1 critic gave you a hit in the neck ! Sorry,and yes I also hate stings in head and neck areas, they hurt worst!

Looking good! Cant wait to find out who get that vaporizer! Its not gonna be that far away!

Hey Bruce, Great to see you shake bees off the frames with a vigorous sideways shake, and just a little downwards vector. Too many RU-vid beekeepers lift their frames high in the air, and then launch it downwards with a violent jerk or flick at the end. That just spears the bees downwards, straight into whatever is solid below and they hit with a sickening thud. It's not good. So, thanks Bruce for shaking your bees and not spearing them.

Thank you I learn more every time I watch! I'm waiting to restart doing bees after losing a hive 4 times when staring over.. waiting until I really retire..the third time.. Question can you do a video of some of the best locations to place your need hives for success? I'm on a ranch and our neighbors happen to park a big trailer and I didn't catch it for 2 days that they parked at where the sun didn't hit my bees and that was like January 2nd and I walked over January 4th I try to check them every other day and the bees were gone. And so that was the fourth time so I quit until I retire one day as I mentioned. But learning how to put in place a hive might be really good for beginners even myself I still got so much to learn I don't that ever stop learning about theses. My Apiry is called Crabapple Cove..and I'm the Queen Bee! Lots of fun ahead this year

This turned out to be an excellent video, thanks

Lots of good information. Thanks for the video.

Enjoyed your video, I plan to use this technique or a modified with double screen. Thanks for the information!

Nice jacket. I like the idea of no zipper.

I would highly suggest using orange cell protectors when placing cells inbetween frames.

Bruce What are you feeding those splits? Great video.

Good explanation of the method. Appreciate it

Great and informative video 👍🏼:Question won’t the bees reject that strange Queen cell if they have 4 day old larvae on a frame

That is a slick way of splitting. Hope the new queens are not as hot as some of your hives. How many splits are you planning on for 2021? Oh, and another easy swarm catch. A box of bees is a box of bees worth $150 in 3 weeks. Do you plan on selling any nucs or you still expanding? Thanks for the update, it was still a very interesting video.

I’m so psyched..yesterday I order an apimaye hive and today someone was removing a hive out of a neighbors place. ...hopeing the bees will move in the cardboard box I put them and comb in till the hive arrives!!

Bruce, some of the folks want to purchase the $5 Queen cells, some realize that they need to stay 93 - 95 degrees so that eliminates getting them shipped, even if you could get them shipped they would need to be shipped over night so they would no longer be five dollars each and if they were shipped the rough handling they could go through might damage all of them and they may not ever emerge. Can you take a few minutes and explain some of these things that I’ve mentioned on a video?

Great work Bruce! Looks to me like you’re almost a full-time beekeeper now, not just a sideliner! Question: after shaking all the bees down into the bottom box and putting the brood frames above the queen excluder, how long do you wait for nurse bees to go up and cover the frames? Can you take those boxes off a couple hours later? The next morning?

Great video Bruce. What you feeding at the end when you were putting the queen cells into the splits?

I'm excited to do some splits this year. Probably just be walk away splits tho

I’m a new subscriber. I love bees but I can’t keep them myself. When bring up the frames can you be a little slower? You know what they look like but there are some of us out here that don’t. Love watching your videos ‼️ 🍯 👵🏻

Great video Bruce

My favorite method of making splits. I'm jealous that you're dropping cells in late March. Bruce, what camera and microphone are you using? Are you happy with them?

Good content Bruce....I was wondering ...with so many hives you have....why do you purchase Queen cells...and destroy the ones in your hives...seems you would have plenty in your hives to do your splits....into the Nucs....is there a better genetic bee that you are trying to introduce....

I’m a new subscriber. I’m getting very interested in bees. I won’t be able to keep bees myself but I love to watch them and taking care of them. But if you could please when you take the frames out could you be a little slower. Thank you. 🍯 👵🏻

Very good videos. How fare away from the original hive do you take the splits before installing new queens? What is your percentage of success on your un mated queens.

Requeen all of those mean colonies. I think you will enjoy being with them more if you deal with them. The sooner the better since the hives are only getting bigger.

What are the queens like from Chipolee Florida? I mean mite wise and temperament. It looks very easy to damage the queen cell but with those ears you can even stick it down further in the frame and let the ears hold it in the wax. That might be better for me not sure. 5 dollars per cell? Wonder if they ship nationwide. Hate to fly down there and pick up a box of cells.

another good video. I expect things will get stranger as time goes on.

best luck on them getting mated,your way ahead,try sugar water squirt bottle for pissy bees,

What time of day is this? Late morning? How much time were you involved in this hive when opening to closing?

Just curious and sorry if you said and I just missed but I noticed you didn't scan your splits for emergency queen cells prior to introducing your cells. Is the thought process that your cell will hatch first and she/colony will eliminate any emergency cells?

I learned it from walls bee man as well. I like his videos. Is he still around?

good deal

Bruce what is the feed that you were using? Did not look like pure 1-1.

So where do you get all your equipment?

are bees come to the swam traps from other people s bee yards ？

I never bought queen cells. How do they ship them and keep the temperature around 90 degrees F ?

Hey Bruce how are you,, how'd you make out with that swarm with the cut Wing Queen??

Bruce, what incubator are you using?

Jacksonville Florida

Hope you have a high percentage of mated queens.

Hi can you let me know where I can buy queen cell thanks

I don't understand why you guys stack all those 5 frame boxes up . Rob.

hi bruce show us the 150 hives you claim to have....

Where did the cells come from?

I could definitely use that vaporizer

I make splits with queen cells. Stop looking for the queen. Don’t shake off the bees. Make 4-5 splits off one hive. Leave a queen cell in every hive unless you see the queen. Done in 5 min.

Never win

200 likes and only one Hater,Not Bad ,😂🤣😂

Just bought the pullover jacket to be able to drink and stop dealing with zippers. They should give you a commission.

Yo have you seen stappler drink through his veil he could probably eat through it too he’s a freak!

So the 10000 subscriber get the vaporizer?

"Don't you have enough bees?" No

I see why you use the camera now it keeps the bees busy while you work. LOL

Rough hives that are crazy all the time... why don’t you requeen with calm genetics.

5 $ queen cell ????what is that ?

After 5 years of keeping bees I quit making plans.

hard to follow what frames are what...next time name content of each frame ..what you are taking out and why? .good try