Again and again and again I read posts and magazine articles saying
this cannot be done without major intermediate steps.  Yet I do it
every year as part of my regular manipulation with complete success
and tolerable extra steps.

When my summer surplus nectar flow ends – I get no fall flow – I
split my hive in order to have two queens building populations.  Late
in the fall, I recombine them, sometimes as a two queen colony, in
order to have a maximum population at the beginning of the next
spring flow.  To recombine, wait until dusk so all the foragers are
inside when the split is moved to above the original hive.  Thus
those foragers which leave the next morning will “know” where the new
(or relocated) entrance is even though they prefer the location of
the split.  Near the end of the day, place a bottom board, empty
super and inner cover at the split location.  After dark, move this
super to the top of the hive.  This may need to be repeated once or
twice.

The complete details of these maneuvers can be found in
<pugetsoundbees.org>, "PSBA Forum”, “Maximizing the Spring Honey
Crop", “Appx. A: ‘Splitting and Recombining’”.   Dan

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