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The "little help" you mention is great...if one has the extra time to do it. There are a lot of folks using these mini mating nucs with all kinds of frames, that incorporate the small frames so that...

Cells for the nuc. Nucs will kill, or ignore the virgin. Once they emerge in the incubator, you can keep the virgins alive, caged and placed in a in an a queen right colony, above a queen excluder,...

I'll tell how I do it and it works for me...:)
Ingredients...One cup of young bees+ 1 Virgin Queen (4-7days old)+ confectioner sugar candy or fondant+1 small sponge soaked w/water.
Put them...

They sure should hatch. Keep them separate though...Otherwise, the first to hatch could kill the rest. Getting the temperature up to 91-93F would be better. If not, at 65F they might get delayed, or...

David, could you elaborate on this a bit? Thanks.

I had the same concern, thinking how to place mini nuc's frames to be drawn in different settings...larger hive, normal frame adaptors or what have you...Why?

Because really, even a very small...

NC. Zip 28574. Caught a very large one that took 2, 10 F deeps to accommodate.
Zip 28546. One swarm moved into one of my vacant traps, after scouting it really good for the last 3 days:).

Sure is...Probably more than one way.:)
The way I do it, on a small scale of course, is to get the Q Cells before they are fully capped, remove the larva and with a plastic syringe 10-12 cc capacity...

Your best bet is to give this hive a frame of eggs / uncapped brood. If they are queen less they will start new queen cells. If they have a virgin, that is not laying yet, they will not. The longer...

Well...I'll give it a shot.
An open mated queen, as it was mentioned above mates with different drones...whoever, whatever is available.
With AI/II queens, the parentage becomes known so to speak....

Zip 28546. Large swarm moved into one of my trap boxes as I was watching.
Noticed a yellow dot queen moving in:).

I would say they are open mated queens.
The artificially inseminated ones are the breeder queens. They cost more...$150-$500 per queen. Sometimes more... I doubt someone would put the effort in II...

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You can go either way. With the nurse bees attached...or without. I've done it either way and it works great. If I give it with the nurse bees, I take the frame out, give it a small puff of...

If your queen less hive is still very populous, I would leave no more than 2 maybe -3 cells.
As far as which ones to keep...I would keep two of them on the same frame...or in close proximity. The...

Reversing the bodies should slow them down a bit. However, if this is a strong hive, and it it appears it is, they will end up revving up the swarm preps...

I would open up again, and try to find...

Congratulations!
The frame of brood you gave them should keep them put. You can keep them in the original location or move them...Personally, I have not seen any difference at this time of the year....

Great. Sounds like the q cups are not capped yet since you've noticed royal jelly. In the original hive, that now is queen less, you might want to check in a few days and see how many capped cells...

Got some more this afternoon...Making nucs like crazy:)...and practicing some II on the rest...

Noticed any larvae in those Qcups? I assume if you called them cups, they are not capped yet?
I would say with the large bee population, white comb, pollen and nectar coming in, and also the high...

Give them a frame of uncapped brood. That will certainly increase the chances of keeping them.
I never lost one that I have offered a frame of uncapped brood.

Three more...two yesterday, zip 28574 and one today zip 28546.

Wow, nice hive, nice picture. Lots of bees that's for sure.

No, you will not lose them all if they swarm. And, if they do swarm, they might land close by and you can catch the swarm. It's a really...

Zip 28574, USDA zone 8...about 6 PM, 70 F, got a call from a friend...large swarm landed under the kids swing set. A nice, thick blanket of bees laying on the ground. Placed a nuc, 5 F deep with some...

I am a bit east from you...some of my hives started swarm preparations first week of March...a split that I made on March the 9th, has swarmed on March 27...Today, I caught a big one in someone's...