Beehive Rescue Mission – Dump & Swap Method
Beehive Rescue Mission – Dump & Swap Method When a bee colony fails to raise a queen after a split, laying workers can take over—and that usually means trouble. In this short, I share how I rescued a queen-less hive full of laying workers using the old “dump and switch” method. ✅ This approach saved […]
Splits or Artificial Swarms for Horizontal Beehives
Splits or Artificial Swarms for Horizontal Beehives Splits are also called ‘artificial swarms’. Artificial swarming does what the honeybees are trying to do naturally: to prevent overcrowding by swarming i.e. self-splitting the colony so that they can establish an additional new colony elsewhere and be fruitful and multiply. Swarming Honeybees With uncontrolled natural swarming, only […]