When you buy a new queen. Where and how should you put her in? My cut out super queen cells didn't take from other hives. So i have to buy a new one. any thoughts?
requeen tbh
When you buy a new queen. Where and how should you put her in? My cut out super queen cells didn't take from other hives. So i have to buy a new one. any thoughts?
Assuming they are queenless, a simple candy cage introduction is usually quite effective.
http://www.bushfarms.com/beesfaqs.htm#requeening
http://www.bushfarms.com/beesdoolittle.htm#CHAPTER16
If you want to stack the deck a push in cage is almost foolproof.
http://www.bushfarms.com/beesfaqs.htm#pushincage
http://www.bushfarms.com/beesdoolitt...#ValuableQueen
http://www.bushfarms.com/beesqueenre...htm#pushincage
http://www.bushfarms.com/beesbetterq...he-Comb%20Cage
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it."
My book: ThePracticalBeekeeper.com
splits what went wrong
Made two Splits from strong lang hives. Each had super cells in them. When checked the queens they had hatched.We looked in today no eggs laid in cell just new super cells in each nuc ,2 in one and 4 in other. did i do some thing wrong? Its been 25 days since we split them.
Sorry put this question in wrong room.Thank you for the help Mr Bush.
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