Beekeeping advice on splitting honeybee colonies

community · Spring 2020

Rachel Halliwell provides guidance on how and when to split honeybee colonies in spring, including considerations for queen rearing and drone population to ensure successful colony growth.

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Sources

• “If your honeybee colony survived the winter... you could split the colony in two!... Here is one method... Wait and inspect in a week, do you see that elongated, oval shaped cell? That is your new queen.” — The Islands Grapevine – April 30th, 2020 (April 30th, 2020)

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