Simple Honey Bee Colony Increase (Roger Patterson)

Beginners are often told to have more than one colony, but aren’t always taught how to do it. If you have a queenright colony, there is no need to buy another colony, as there are many opportunities to make increase. 0:00 Introduction 0:42 Why? 4:41 Options for increase 9:51 What do you need to know? cont 15:52 Where to put them? 17:07 How do you prevent bees going home? 26:17 Things to Remember........ 31:06 Check for healthy brood 31:45 What do you need? 35:41 Making increase from colonies 35:58 You need to make some decisions..... 39:53 Artificial swarm 41:08 A variation 42:56 If not building Q/Cs........ 44:05 Simple splitting V1 47:04 Simple Splitting V2 49:59 2 frame nuc 50:09 Good food frame 50:42 Sealed brood 51:51 Well stocked nucleus with introduced queen 52:03 Queen Introduction 57:17 24-48 hours is normal To avoid annoyance we don’t enable adverts on our videos. If you wished to contribute to our costs of helping beekeepers, please consider a small donation via this link: https://bibba.com/donate/