Re: Hive Increase Kits

Rick wrote:
>"hive increase Kit."

If you have a hive with say two boxes of brood size frames, arrange it so
there are
fresh eggs [laying over not standing up] in each body then separate the
boxes with a
double screen [that may be one of the items in the hive increase kit] and
give each
box its own entrance diametrically opposed the existing entrance. The
queen-rite body
will carry on much as before, the body without a queen will raise a new
one. After the
two bodies have developed separate colonies, the top box [but either one
really] can
be moved to a new location.

Lastly: If the move is in the same yard, do it at night after they're all
in and stuff
the entrance of the moved hive with grass so it takes a day or so for the
bees to chew
their way out. It seems this group activity makes them forget [not all but
most] the
old location.

There are other ways to do this the main reason this is useful is sharing
energy
between the queen and queenless parts of the colony until the two bodies
are equal in
strength.

-- 
C.K.