- Make a weak hive strong
- Make a strong hive a little weaker to prevent swarming
- Some different methods explained i.e. newspaper method
- Switching colonies
- Moving a divide to another colony
Friday, May 29, 2020
Making a weak hive into a powerhouse hive
I had queen issues with one of my package bee hives. I caught the problem a little late. The hive did get depleted with bees, but I requeened anyways. On later inspection I noticed it only had two frames or so of bees. I knew the hive was too weak and would never build up unless it had an intervention of more bees. This video shows what I did to: