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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tristan" data-source="post: 7568" data-attributes="member: 30">thats something you need to watch.an onsite split is trying to split a hive in half (or close to it) rather than make a nuc from a hive.big difference is that parent hive will drop in size a lot with a split rather than a small amount with a nuc taken from it.however the trade off is that the bigger the nuc is, the faster it builds up. plus big nucs tend to look after themselves better.by moving the queen it becomes more of an artificial swarm, which is really handy if its a hive thats bursting at the seams and is about to go.</blockquote>

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