New design of the hive give possibility to grow more bees !!!

The work of our experimental hive showed, that the bees, which leave in it,  develop much faster, and the family become stronger in much shorter time. The offshoot consists from four frames of mixed-age brood, bees and queen was placed in our hive on the eighth of May. On June 5, the family had 9 brood frames and sealed queen cells.

On the sixth of June the family was divided into two parts. In our hive remained the half with the queen and 5 frames of brood.

By the end of June, it was possible to  divide the family in half again. There was 9 frames of brood again. From this point on, we strted removing the swarming queen cells, in order to continue our experiment.  For our experiment we need the family of the same size and condition as it was previously...