Tips on Using a Double Screen Board for Splits - Jacksonville FL Zone 9b 

Thanks Chuck very helpful video I have been using the double screen board with good success so far this year, thanks for your help 🙂

Chuck great video with clear explanations. Just wanted to mention if you make new hive stands that only hold two hives side by side, or four hives in a square like the palletized commercial beekeepers, you can stand to the side of the hive during inspections and not block the flightpath of the bees or have your feet near the front entrance.

Wow! I have so much more to learn. 🤔

That is basically my plan for this season for splits. I have 15 hives and want to use 3 to 5 of them for honey production and planning to split the rest to grow. Planning on 30 singles going into next winter. Great video!

Chuck, when you had the nuc above the screen board, how do you keep rain water from standing on top of the screen board? Also, what were those brown strips you put in the last hive? Really enjoy your videos. Thanks for your efforts.

Great video. I have never used that method but think I will try soon. Thanks for your time. Keep them coming..

Hi Chuck, great video. I am going to give this a go, it looks like a great system. Cheers Chris

Very Good illustration.

love ❤ur video very clear explaination

Another well explained job

Very interesting Chuck

Thanks like your ways. Very good vid thanks alot. Old Dan Bees

Great stuff

Great video! Going to try this. 😊

I like the nuc idea. Will use that. Thanks.

Great video. Q cell and cant.find the queen, already swarmed? If I was purchasing a double screen I would op for a Snelgrove board. Gives you a couple of other options down the road. About 8 weeks of us in Fort Wayne. Bit with this crazy weather who knows. 60s this week. Glenn

question, if you have the Nuc on top and it rains for a week, where does all the water go even if the hive is perfectly level? could maybe have a removeable notch on each side so the water can get out,

I really like the last option, great video. At 13:34, what is the square device you have near the left entrance of that hive? And that first hive you went into looked a little spicy!

Hi chuck , getting ready to start that process. Should I remove my 4 “ entry board and open all the way 10 frame box bees are super busy this week, thanks

If all the brood in the bottom with the queen is young doesn’t that mean she has nowhere to lay? Or does adding the super give her space for that? My concern would be that she runs out of room and they make more queen cells

How long would you leave the nuc on top if you let them rear their own queen? When do they get separated from the hive below?

I thought that you shook all the bees off the upper box. So it doesn’t have nurse bees? Joe from Georgia

Im making 60 double screen boards for nuc production.

MISSING INFO: You should have nurse bees in the top box of the split or there will be no one to feed royal jelly to make new queen. In the video you shook all the nurse bees off in an attempt to shake down your unseen queen. Beginners will fail using this method of removing all bees from the top split as you showed. It must also be emphasized that there must be less than three day old eggs in the queenless box so the bees can make a new queen.

Do you sell queen