View Full Version : Placing the queen back in....
Chef Isaac
05-22-2006, 12:31 AM
The day before I graft, I take the frame out with the queen and another frame with some bees and palce in a small nuc. Than I graft and wait. When it is time to place the queen cells in the mating nucs....
can I take the queen that I placed in the nuc and just place her and the frames of bees back into the hive? I do not want to raise another nuc from this queen and would like her to stay in with the orginal hive.
Will this be ok?
honeyman46408
05-22-2006, 03:44 AM
Why did you take her out??
Michael Bush
05-22-2006, 08:26 AM
This was to get a queenless cell starter/finisher? It's been 15 days since you took her out? Probably they will accept her. But it's probably better insurance to put her in a push in cage for a day or two.
Dan Williamson
05-22-2006, 08:38 AM
If it has only been a day or two its probably ok.
However, why go to all that trouble of removing the queen. You can use a cloak board to accomplish the same thing. Alot less work or make up a starter colony. Both are less risky in my opinion.
Personally, I don't think you can beat a cloake board for ease and simplification.
Chef Isaac
05-22-2006, 09:09 AM
mmm.... whu not use a cloake board...
BECAUSE I DO NOT HAVE ONE !!!! smile.gif
This method was pretty simple for me.
But yes, I would like to try a cloake board sometime.
[ May 22, 2006, 10:10 AM: Message edited by: Chef Isaac ]
Dan Williamson
05-22-2006, 09:50 AM
>>BECAUSE I DO NOT HAVE ONE !!!!
Do you have a queen excluder? If so with a couple of scraps of wood for rails and a sheet of anything that will block off access to those bees below the excluder (in the queen-right part)you can easily make one.
I've just found it can be risky re-introducing a queen when they have started q-cells.
[ May 22, 2006, 10:52 AM: Message edited by: Dan Williamson ]
wayacoyote
05-23-2006, 09:51 PM
I did like Dan said using an excluder and an inner cover with the hole taped shut for making a queenless chamber. However, a sheet of metal, waxed cardboard or paperboard, luan plywood, etc would work as well. Michael Bush shows a Floor without a floor that is easy to make with some scrap 3/4 in strips.
Waya