Making Splits

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Across
  1. 3. Losses in this season may be compensated for by making splits in the spring and summer.
  2. 5. Some people make very small three frame splits into a piece of equipment called a queen______. Personally doesn't seem like much of a luxurious abode to me, but that is its name
  3. 8. Sometimes splits are done to do this to your apiary
  4. 9. Since a split usually lowers honey production, beekeepers sometimes choose to make splits in their hives after they have completed their _______.
  5. 10. best time to make a split because it is a time of high growth in the beehive
  6. 12. If you want your split to make their own queen, the split must include frames with these in the cells
  7. 15. No matter when you split, the originating colony must be a _______colony. You should leave it with plenty of brood even after you have removed the frames for the split.
  8. 16. If you introduce a purchased queen to a split, she will be in this
  9. 18. These must be flying in order for a split to be able to make a queen
  10. 20. A split must include frames of this
  11. 21. An easy way to split is to shake all of the bees off of the brood frames and other frames that you want in the split and put the box with frames for the split above this in the hive. The next day the new box will be filled with bees for the split population
Down
  1. 1. If a hive has done this, it will be a good hive to split in the spring
  2. 2. You should see these in the new split in about a week or it will not be successful
  3. 3. In this type of split the hive is split exactly in half - equal numbers of brood frames, pollen frames, honey frames in each half of the split
  4. 4. making a split relieves this in the spring bee hive
  5. 6. Often a new split needs this in order to make sure the colony has nurture.
  6. 7. An early spring split may prevent your colony from doing this
  7. 8. You must have extra of this in order to make a split
  8. 11. Having a split in this kind of box creates resources for your apiary
  9. 13. If you see these in a strong colony, moving a frame with these on it to the split assures a quicker queen presence in the new colony
  10. 14. The best one of these for a split has capped brood as well as open cells with eggs.
  11. 17. Putting this at the entrance of your split helps the bees protect their new vulnerable colony
  12. 19. A split must include this on frames to feed the new hive