Laurence Edwards shows how to split a colony using two capped brood frames with the queen, a frame of stores, and extra bees shaken into a nuc box. Add three frames of foundation, seal it, and move it to a new location to start a fresh hive.
Simple technique, making a two-frame split. All you're going to do is go into your colony when you've got a full brood box, and you're going to take out two frames of brood. On those two frames, you want them as capped as possible, preferably with emerging brood. Make sure the queen is on one of those frames as well. Take those two frames, pop them into a nuc, add a frame of stores, shake off a couple of brood frames worth of bees into that nuc as well. Fill it up with three frames of foundation. Put the lid on, close the disc. Take it off to another apiary.
