How To Split Your Beehive With Queen Cells
Wondering how to split your beehive with queen cells? As a beekeeper, one of the most rewarding and important skills to develop is the ability to effectively split your beehive. Splitting your hive allows you to increase the number of colonies you manage, replace aging queens, and prevent swarming - all critical components of running a successful and sustainable apiary.
One of the most straightforward methods for splitting a hive is to take advantage of the natural swarm preparation process by using the queen cells that the bees have already started building. In this post, we'll walk through a step-by-step guide on how to identify swarm cells, create a new nucleus colony (or "nuc") with the existing queen, and leave the remaining colony to raise a new queen.
