Of the 4 hives in the home yard, all of them needed splitting. I didn’t have much time, so I split 2 of them. The Blue hive has a non-standard Illinois super. It is my last one I haven’t cut down to a medium. I was just going to sell it. But it is on a deep and medium. However, the bees moved up into it over winter, so it is fully occupied. The deep became the honey super. So I rotated the Illinois to the bottom, medium then deep. I saw white wax and lots of reserves.
I split the other hives to give them more room and make 2 new hives. One in a full deep, the other in a deep nuc. I like the laying pattern I see.
The far left hive I didn’t have time to split, but I was able to add in some empty frames, and move the full frames to the top in a new deep. So I can split later.
