Splitting hives is how beekeepers increase their numbers You can do a split in your own apiary, you just to need to follow some general guidelines Take frames of capped brood covered in nurse bees and put them in the daughter hive. These bees won't leave and go back to the mother hive as half of them aren't even at flying age yet 🐝 If you are doing a walkaway split/pauper split (you're taking away a queen from one of the colonies so they have to make their own) always put the queen in the daugh