{"id":57,"date":"2014-08-17T18:19:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T18:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naplesbees.com\/staging\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2022-04-07T08:30:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T12:30:26","slug":"splitting-a-hive","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/naplesbees.com\/staging\/splitting-a-hive\/","title":{"rendered":"Hive Splits"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a04\/22\/2015 — New queens and nucs from two established hives:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Caged queens
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4\/25\/2015<\/strong> \u2013 Inspection revealed all the 4\/21\/2015 inserted queen cages into hives #5,6,7, and 8 have been opened by the bees and have queens roaming through the frames. This is a very good sign for going forward into spring.<\/p>\n

4\/22\/2015<\/strong> – Hive #1 has a queen!\u00a0 Where it came from is a mystery, but I must have missed it with last month’s and recent weeks inspections. \u00a0 Also 4 new Italian queens were obtained from\u00a0carpentersapiaries.com<\/a> and have been placed into new hives that were built from frames from hive #1 and hive #4.\u00a0 The new hives are now known as hives #5,6,7, and 8<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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3\/13\/2015<\/strong> – We did another split from hive #4 into a 5 frame nuc box. An inspection on 3\/20\/2015 showed that we had 5 capped queen cells. We will attempt to get a few queens by caging the cell groups.\u00a0 <\/span>
\nUPDATE 4\/19\/2015:<\/strong> This, unfortunately, failed as we ended up with no queens in this hive at all.\u00a0 This caused us to go to plan B which was to try to obtain mated queens from an outside source……. see above.<\/span><\/p>\n

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