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Would appreciate a link. Only see a fat beeman queen cell transplant videos on youtube.

The number of drones that mated with a queen is a much more important factor than how fat a queen is. An underfed queen will not return from a flight, so natural selection at work there. I'd also...

For 3 days after the cells are capped, we consider a sensitive development stage. We try not to jar the cells and walk on air around the hive. What I am curious, if one absolutely has to move cells...

Simple... you made your new hive from forager bees. The simply take off and go to their old location, therefore you have a sad state of affairs. To help in your endeavor, do the same thing as...

Look for a queen. Even a virgin is fairly large and prominent. if you cannot find her, either combine the bees with existing hive or give them a queen and start over in a new location. Beekeeping...

Just getting on your discussion. When my grafts mostly fail to take (let's assume 2 out 10), I just regraft into the 8 empty cups the next day and they take to them right away. Sometimes it takes...

put a frame with foundation near the grafts, that ought to minimize the occurrence also.

I never had a breeder queen from Sue, but had a daughter from her breeding program. Boy are they nice and so calm and gentle. I replaced all of my queens with those. Easier to work with them. ...

I find that as the colony grows there are many more bees that are dedicated to guarding hives. So a booming colony will more than likely be more defensive than a smaller starter colony.

With...

bees w/o queen are nasty nasty little buggers. butt in the air is not an indication of a queen. the only true indication of a queen ( in the absence of actually seeing one) is fresh eggs neatly...

Just curious, Mike B, how do I know that the hive has been smoked heavily enough. Do I want to see bees vacating the hive, or I want to see smoke come out of every seam? Or smoke them for 1 minute...

I assume you are feeding? Bees that are severely short of nectar or syrup will not bring pollen. The mechanism is based on the feeding formula that foragers get from the nurse bees. If the ratio...

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I found that if the broken part was exposed to the elements, the bees have broken down the cell, especially when the exposed part had royal jelly leaking out. So what I do is try to...

Just thinking off the top of my head, I think it is risky, cause virgins have a degree of pheromones depending on her age in days. If I would do it, I would only introduce into a well fed nuc with...

I assume you definitely have a queen, right? Is so, don't worry about it. It seems hot enough that they are ready to go exploring. W/o a queen, they would be missing the essential hive magnet to...

If grafting is tough for you, just read up Old Timer's presentation on how he cuts his foundation with day-old larvae and punches out two cells between each future queen cell. You don't need to...

If you add carpathian or russian or caucasin queen to an italian hive you'll have problems 80% of the time. Italians and carniolans are close enough in their genetics that workers will accept a new...

I have never observed bees reuse wax, except in one situation, when building queen cells. In fact dipping the grafting frame in wax is a nice insurance for good queen cell walls.

I will take exception to the popular opinion on this thread. The system works pretty well. I tried it with two different queens and they all laid up the eggs readily in the cells. I just mounted...

It would work to have a solid vertical separator, with two hive halves having entrances pointing in opposite directions. That's the safest. Pointing in the same direction, is the less safe, but it...

Just curious, has anyone tried to bypass cell builder stage by gently dipping grafted plastic cells into wax several times to make the cell look like they got wax started on the edges. Just a...

The larvae is feeding on RJ for one more day after the cell is capped. If she gets jarred roughly she looses her contact with royal jelly. Apparently after the contact is lost, she cannot always...

Just a consideration: Find someone in your area who already does it professionally and pay them to do it. The best hives have queens fertilized by multiple unrelated drones, whose offspring...

Why not consider multicolor based on the position of the box. Make deeps dark colors on the sides for the morning and evening sun and light color in front, for mid day normal temperature. The...

There is enough evidence to suggest that bees can regulate temperature pretty well, even in the coldest environmnets. The law of conservation of energy cannot be turned off in the colder hive. If...