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Uploaded by on May 11, 2010

A central Nebraska beekeeper shares his afternoon of "Hive Splitting"..creating new colonies and expanding bee populations through providing additional accomodations..

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  • Split question: I want to do a split but I can't get my mind around how this can be successful.

    It takes between 3 and 4 weeks for the new hives to make a queen. Then it takes another 3 weeks before new worker bees hatch. If a bee lives only 6 weeks, the entire original population should be dead before the new bees hatch and that's if they were all newborns to begin with.

    I guess a few hatch from the brood you include?

    Is it true emergency queens are not as good?

  • @green2lean I have forwardwed yopur question to our bee keeper friend and he weill try to answer..thanks

  • dont know why you are having this problem..the audio is fine on my computer

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  • My left ear enjoyed the voice. My right ear enjoyed the song.

  • @teenprepper96 Check with your state or local beekeepers' association, all offer mentoring programs and some offer scholarships which provide most everything you need to get started. Welcome to the Bee Borg!

  • @irishbreakfast thanks, we have an orchard on property, that is where I will keep the hives, mostly TBH's

  • @teenprepper96 HEY,KID!THATS IT,YOU DO THAT!ITS UP TO YOUR GENERATION TO FIX THE DISASTERS OF THE PAST! now go forth helping the earth and yourself to sustain life on our planet! (raising cray fish and bullfrogs is pretty cool,too!) then you have EARNED your right to party!!!! we,your parents generation(us electric youth of the eighties) had to fight for it against a system that could care less about nature,and more about profit.now your generation can discover nature IS profitable.GO FOR IT!!!

  • YOU HAVE BEEN ASSIMILATED! RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!!

  • I have been bitten and I am only 15, I dont have a hive yet but I am addicted, its too late in the year now but next spring i am getting some hives

  • We get lots of comments about going suitless. Charlie Mraz would even go shirtless. I have done it, but recommend removing chest hair. I talk about the mindset in working a hive in Videopole's "Garden of Beeden, part 1. But I also adapt to the bees on the issue, they are most tolerant between mid morning and midafternoon, with calm to gentle winds, sunny, temps between 55 and 80F, and with a good nectar flow in progress. Busy hands are happy hands.

  • The Thing about the Sound is that the Music is right and Speaker on left.

    Great Video.

    Love them little fellas!

  • Great Video. Lots of info and a good/funny narrator. Pretty brave for not wearing a suit!

  • feed all the larvaes with royal jelly than they will become queens. The 1st one that hatches will kill all the others.

    I hope I have helped you. I did this with all my 100 hives and now i have 200 here in Brazil

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