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drone1952
08-02-2009, 02:54 AM
I `m a man who ask for help.
Ce you help me? In one of romanian forum an american guy(sorry a romanian guy who now is an american citizen) said that in discution with an american student in beekeeping he find out that the queen has on the soles an organ, gray colour, who propagate the queens feromones.
It`s true? Or the guy it`s writing only to .....
If you can read romanian http://www.apicultor.3xforum.ro/post/223/1/Ce_stim_despre_regina_/

peletier
08-02-2009, 07:18 AM
G.M.Doolittle raised queen cells above an excluder in a queenright colony. Ben Harden, an Irish beekeeper, does the same and says it works because the queen spreads a pheremone from the "Amhart gland" in her feet. Since she can't walk above the excluder, the pheremone is weak or non-existant in the cell-building chamber. Read about it here:
http://www.dave-cushman.net/bee/benhardenmethod.html

I don't know how it works but I have had success raising queens in this way.