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Has anyone tried this? http://theapiarist.org/vertical-splits-making-increase/

Here is the short question: I just installed a new mated queen in her cage yesterday into a fresh split and that same evening I found (looking in through the bottom screen) three caped queen cells. So do I destroy the capped cells or will my new queen do it for me. Here's is how I got there...

Making Splits for Swarm Control . Hives of bees that are strong enough to be a pollination unit, 5 frames of brood with bees covering 8 frames, during fruit tree pollination starting around the first week in May will become two crowded and will swarm before the main nectar flow starts at...

I had an empty hive box and an extremely over-full hive so I performed a hive split 18 days ago. The strong hive was packed full of bees, already a lot of honey and had a good number of drones. New split hive seems to be going just fine, we're checking again this weekend for a queen (we left...