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I’m attempting to raise my own queens. I made my own wax cups mounted them on a bar attached to a frame. My plan is to cut the queen cells just before they hatch and put them in nucs. I’m not able to...

Was just wondering if anyone tried carrying a few queens with them on an airplane. I am visiting a friend who has queens and would like to take them back with me on the airplane.

I'm going to travel to Florida in a few weeks and will be visiting a bee apiary near by. I was wondering if I buy some and want to bring them back with me on the airplane if TSA will allow me to.

I’ve been attempting to raise my own queens using the cell cup method and have not succeeded yet. This latest attempt looked like it should have worked. I checked just before they were due to cap the...

Out of the 20 cells it looks like only two have royal jelly in it. Will try again and this time make sure they hatched.

When do nurse bees start feeding royal jelly? Do they feed the eggs before they hatch or after?

Its been 3 days since I put the queen in and what I thought were larvae turned out to bee eggs. I already removed the cell onto the bar and put it in the cell builder hive. I read in here that they...

I got my first queen rearing kit from Mannlake after failing in grafting. The instruction says to put the empty cage in the hive a few days before capturing the queen and putting her inside the cage....

I inspected my hive and found swarm cells on three frames and decided to make some splits using these frames. I moved the frame with the queen cell and two others with brood and shook some bees into...

Okay, I've made three attempts at getting queen cells. The first two grafting failed. The third attempt was to give them a frame of young larvae and be done with this cell builder hive. When I went...

I’m going to try using those cages with the removable cell cups that confine the queen into laying in them. I’ve never handled queens before. What is the best way to catch her and put her into these...

I'm thinking of giving system a try since my grafting failed. But I'm hesitant because I'm not sure of how I would catch the queen and get her into the cage. How is this done? Grabing her wings?

I thought I was getting some queen cells but after taking a close look I didn't see any developing larvae. I'm new at this but it did look like they were building cells. See in the photo they were...

I check again yesterday to see how many graft took, and at first thought 5 or 6 based on observing new wax build up on the cups I made. but I'm not sure. If I have the timing right they should cap...

Wow! this is great thanks!!!

I grafted some larvae for the first time and it appears that some are taking. I was very nervous and collected the smallest larvae I could find. I believe they were 2 days old as best I could tell. I...

I took a quick look and if I understood what they were doing it looks like I may have 5 or 6 cells (out of 13) are being worked on. I might just be overly optimistic. Maybe in a week it will be...

Today I attempted to graft for the first time. I made my queen cups and mounted them on a bar and frame. Yesterday I separated a supper that had no larvae and some capped brood. This super has been...

I’m going to attempt to raise my own queens this year by grafting larvae to a bar of cups I constructed. Its still a bit early to do this here even thou we have had warm weather for a while (60's)....

This will be my first attempt at raising my own queens and will give it a try this weekend. I was just curous about how shaking the bees off the frame might affect the cells with royal jelly. Will it...

I’m going to make splits and need to get bees off of the frames. I was wondering if the shaking causes problems to the larvae or brood and that I should just use a brush to get them off. Which is...

I want to attempt to raise my own queens for the first time. I made the wax cups and mounted them to a bar on the frame. I think it looks good from watching Youtube videos. So now I need to find some...

I have a few hives that didn’t make it this winter. One absconded in the fall and one lost lots of bees and died. Both have clean frames of comb and some capped honey. I’ve been keeping them outside...

I know everyone starts nuc’s in the spring and summer. The new nucs need time to get established right? But I was wondering about starting nuc’s in the fall. Here is my logic. If you split hives with...

I discovered that freezing my gloves both leather and cloth that I am able to easily remove it from the gloves. Its very brittle when frozen. You have to do this quickly before they warm up.