Your Bees Will Swarm If You Don't Do THIS! 

Sorry about the audio in the middle! Wireless connector had a loose connection. I'll reshoot it next year! ;)

One queencell is correct. Years ago when starting I left more and bees in Ireland tended to swarm out till they were tini colonies.

Hi Lawrence, great your new queen was successfully mated I don’t know how it’s been in your part of the country but I’ve had a stinker of a season especially early on in the year getting virgin queens mated with the bad weather we had in May, I think I killed maybe 8 duds the bees killed another 6 which I found on there landing boards and 6 of the mated queens I had bought 4 of them where superseded it has been a strange season for sure. Wow mate that colony of yours was massive even when you did your split you ended up with 2 big hives yes your method of splitting hives is the same procedure as I do my own. Great vlog mate thx for taking us along with you at your apiary.

Well done, a video with lots of great information that will be put to work this day in Lewiston, Idaho!!

Ive just done my first split so this was really useful! Thanks!

Awesome explanation of why you do what is needed.Thanks

I just did a walk away when I found two cells .. came back later and there was a bunch more … I remember someone saying the queens will fight it out and the strongest will survive

Fantastic video! Thankyou so much , best on the net! 🥇

That's the best split method I ever seen ... cheers 🥂.

Thanks for that informative video step by step.

Great video yet again! Appreciate the forethought and planning that goes into making these over the course of 6 weeks.

Thanks for showing the whole process, superb info 👌

Great video and wow what an amazing hive, just wondered what you would have done if you had have found queen cells in with the original queen after you had split? Would you get away with just knocking them down? Keep up the good work 👏 ab thanks for another great video

Very well done

Can do some of those bees right now 😲

Great vlog 👍

fantastic video

How many colonies do you have? Is it time efficient? We have 340 colonies, we remove swarm cells every 6 days for them. Do you think I should do this instead next year?

Hi from Texas. With the hives next to each other do the bees dreft back and forth to even out the population ?

Mixmax video no thing understand . Thank you for video

Searching for virgins is not something you need to do. Oh well, I'll strike that off the bucket list.

Beast

HI lawrence do you check all your hives weekly to stop swarming? Thanks

Great vid Larry. I’d normally be in a Pearl of sweat with a cloud of bees that size, pinging off me. How’s the suit working out? Too pricey for me I’m afraid.

I would say that was a normal split !! an artificial swarm would be put on new foundations with a new maited queen ?

I've watched twice. Not sure what you mean at the beginning when you say ' face the two hives the same way '. Are you talking about the entrances?

Still hear everything . Wondering do u use a smoker at all ?

How do you know they are not stinging

As a newbie, pun intended. Iv not been to apiary yet ie handled bees your hives were covered in bees, how do you avoid crushing some as you looked v fast to Replace supers etc, and how do you remove so many bees from suit when leaving. Not being funny really need help. Olso iv bought bbwear suit nice n cool great fit.