Now let's set up the support colony — let's organize the support colony the same way. Here we sort honey, pollen; we also placed a drone comb 15 days ago, the bees have — here you see — partially built it up. Instead of this frame, we give another frame, another frame with drawn comb or with comb foundation. Now we'll sort honey, pollen, and one, two, three empty frames, set them aside. Now we'll also look for the queen, look for the queen — roughly we found the queen here. Fine, we'll put her here, we can use a queen clip too so she doesn't fall into the grass; if there's no clip, we have to check again, Whether she's here, whether she's here, whether she's here, whether she's here, whether she's here, Here is the queen on the frame. Now here we sort all the sealed brood from this colony — sealed brood goes here, sealed brood. And here, in the same way, we sort all the open brood — we take out one frame, place it here, but now we return the queen with the frame she was on, among the open brood. What have we got? What have we got? Again, in this second super we've got the same — some honey, open brood, empty frames below. We place this partial honey cap, the honey cap, and fill up here; we close this — we now have a relieved support colony, we've taken all its sealed brood, Here partially 7-8 frames. Open brood — we've left plenty of room, empty frames, comb foundation, so the queen can lay and won't swarm. What will we do now? We'll take a sprayer with diluted brandy or mint tea, that sprayer, we'll spray these bees a little here, we'll spray these bees, With the sealed brood from the support colony, and we'll add it here to the productive colony. We close this productive colony — this is the productive colony already formed, and this is the support colony. This would be the so-called first operation of forming the support colony and the productive colony. Here's what we'll do now. What have we got from the support colony? We've got: on the bottom board is a super with empty frames, in the middle super is open brood and the queen, and in the third super are frames with honey. So the third super has, this is called the cap, some security, The queen can lay in the two supers below, and there's enough room so it won't swarm. In the productive colony we have the same situation — below are three supers: empty frames, open brood with the queen in the middle, and frames with honey in the third. We made the brood box of the support colony and the productive colony in exactly the same way. So the queen is here — now here is the solid divider board, you see, with the fiberboard, So the queen is physically separated in the brood box from these honey supers. Up here, above this solid divider, is a honey super with sealed brood from the productive colony. In the second super is A honey super with sealed brood from the support colony. So what have we got here? We've got two supers with sealed brood. The brood will gradually emerge, and these bees from the supers will bring in honey. This honey super, since it's physically separated from the brood box, A certain number of bees will return down to the brood box, But that's why, when we formed these two honey supers, We shook bees from the open brood up here, To fill the space of those bees that will return down to the brood box, So the brood doesn't get chilled. If it gets cold, we reduce this opening with this entrance. On the divider board we leave only this entrance. We can also partially reduce them if the weather is cold. Until this brood partially emerges, On the fifth, sixth day, we will open this honey super. We will find the frames that have queen cells, Because these honey supers are queenless. They will draw queen cells on certain frames, Because it's the period just before the main honey flow, Where there is always some quiet nectar flow going on. We can also place a protein patty here as a standby, So this patty stands by in case it gets cold, Since lots of young bees are emerging here, and there is honey, But let them have that patty just in case. So we don't get colony losses, So this patty covers them all the way to the main honey flow. What will we do with the queen cells? On the fifth, sixth day we will tear down all the sealed queen cells, And we will leave the ones just started, And we will leave those queen cells — the best two, three, four queen cells, That are about to be sealed, The ones I've assessed as good. We put back the cover board, The patty is standing by. What will happen in these two brood boxes? What will happen is that while all the brood emerges, While all this brood emerges over 21 days, Up to 25,
