Sunday, May 17, 2015

5-17-2015 Another split attempt and adding a deep super

Apparently the previous attempt to split the hive didn't take.... and the silver top hive was busting at the seams (and even had some queen cells... see above pictures).  So, I took the frames with queen cells and put it in the weak queenless hive in the hopes to 1 - Prevent a swarm from the strong hive and 2- Get the weak hive to produce a queen and become stronger.

Also, I added a second deep super to the strong hive just to make sure there was plenty of room to help prevent a swarm.

We'll take a look in  a few weeks to see how things are going.