My first Split (or a Queen for a queen).
I love beekeeping. Even though I am still so new and feel like I am making more mistakes than not, I love it. The bees are wonderful, the beekeeping is forever interesting and rewarding. The community online is wonderful. So after the advice from a lovely gentleman in my beekeeping club in Katoomba , I ordered my new queen and have now installed her in a split hive. I was worried about the chalk-brood in hive 2 and was…