Nurse bees

[Etton]

I am sure I read somewhere that bees on the supers are the nurse bees? Ie the foragers pass the nectar on to the nurse bees. If I am doing a split should I scoop bees only from the brood comb or can I use the super bees instead? That way I would avoid putting an unmarked queen in the split with the queen cell.

 

[Heather]

Are you doing a split to prevent swarming?
If so brood frames and a queen cell one way, queen on broodless frame and all other frames the other. Queen right colony back to original site for fliers to build up that colony size.
But need to find that unmarked queen...

If just splitting to increase your stock, ensure eggs go to both colonies so the queenless one can get cracking on a new queen asap, and you don't know where the queen is!!.
Just try and divide equally, and I would put the super on the new site of hive so any fliers can go back to the original site, but new colony has stores..
But, as you see on here, others will disagree... that's beekeeping..

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I am sure I read somewhere that bees on the supers are the nurse bees? Ie the foragers pass the nectar on to the nurse bees. If I am doing a split should I scoop bees only from the brood comb or can I use the super bees instead? That way I would avoid putting an unmarked queen in the split with the queen cell.

........ That is the main reason for using the supers - saves searching for the queen and as a bonus yes, the bees up there are the younger bees (not necessarily nurse bees as they will be busy, err, nursing ) as the foragers will be out foraging.