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I started beekeeping about one year ago and this year I've decided to start queen rearing. Yesterday I grafted larvea for the first time into JZBZ queen cups. Today I went back to the starter hive (nuc box) to check on how they are doing and see if they started making any of the queen cells, but...

Question: How many hives in a yard are needed for a virgin queen to likely find sufficient mates? Background: I live in Virginia (Zone 7b). Last year I bought my first two hives. Both have overwintered (so far) and already look quite strong. I have three more hives ready to go, and have...

Howdy from Texas Y’all, My wife and I are in our third year of Topbar Hive Beekeeping and are starting Langs this year. As part of our planning and preparing for expanding (our knowledge and apiary), we’re going to journey into rearing our own Queens. I’m sure I haven’t read every post or...

My idea exposes mites. 2 days of OAV are used while mites are exposed (phoretic). I'll call this "the killing". A hive is split. The old hive has exposed mites and gets "the killing". The new hive gets a brood break (and makes a queen) then "the killing". Other treatments reduce mite drift. We...

I call this my "Tom Sawyer" bee camp. What I want is for you to come and do my bee work and pay me for it. But, of course I hope you get to learn a lot about how I keep bees in the process. Seriously it is how I hope to get somewhat caught up on bee work while teaching at the same time. For...

It took me a long time to find The Australasian Bee Manual and the first one I found was from 1886. I was searching for it because I wanted to read about the Hopkins Method of queen rearing from Hopkins. Unfortunately the 1886 version did not have the Hopkins method in it. However he did have...

Suppose you are making queens. You have bad hives that you want to treat for varroa (with an artificial brood break) and requeen. You want to breed from and not treat your good hives. How do you do this? The goal for bad hives Apply the treatment. requeen My simplified definition of a brood...

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Laurel and I keep 300+ colonies. We both kept bees before we were married and struggled in the early years with consistency and having large amounts of healthy hives year after year. Here are a couple of the things we didnt know over a decade ago that we do now to maintain our beekeeping...

Looking for a reasonably priced incubator. This one is about perfect: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MG4166U/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_1?smid=A39SXLQYAXHTN0&psc=1 with the exception of one thing. It's in Celsius. I want one that shows Fahrenheit. Now I am fully aware I can use a calculator...

Just wondering if some experienced queen breeders could use this thread to post some basic info for us noobs. maybe post some photos etc about how you go about the business. Preparation Setting up cell builders, etc. Best way to collect larvae Photos of your grafting setup. Timetables Anything...

This isn't a brag or a how to....it's just how I did it while attempting to solve my plastic foundation dilemma with cutting out queen cells. It was an experiment (which I like to do) which worked. It's an option.

I enjoy my winter projects....my hive tool pouch project, german hive bottom project, bee funnel and shook swarm box and now the timing box project. This is used for getting queens to lay on a specific frame for a set amount of time so you will always have handy correct age larvae to graft...

I'm making nucs and raising queens for the first time this year and while I don't expect to be making nucs through late July I am wondering when is a good time to halt queen rearing and nuc building and start prepping for fall? The goal is to raise nucs to sell for a few rounds and then...

I've been building cell builders and grafting for four years now. I know how to get the bees to fill the cups with royal jelly to overflowing proportions. My question is this: At what point - and when - is enough, enough? Many times I check on my grafts on days two or three, and the JZBZ style...

I've been researching about grafting and queen rearing. I understand everything up to "after the queens hatch". I have some questions about the mating process. My main question is, "do they have to be instrumentally inseminated?" Or is there a way for open mating? I don't see a lot of discussion...

High everyone, i just wanted to share this video i made on how i raise my queens here in Brittany France. Not telling anyone how they should or shouldn't raise their queens, because everyone should try different methods until they find a method that works for them. This Method is based of...

Hi, second year beekeeper here. Did My first graft on sunday in a starter and then transfered the grafts to a Queen right finnisher on thuesday in the super above the excluder with plan to put the cages on this saturday. The finnisher colony has space and has no signs of swarming tendency...

Does anyone know where I can purchase a queen rearing calendar wheel? I saw one at the HAS conference in KY last month. The only website I could find was beecity.am, it is located in Armenia. Although the language on the wheel is Armenian, it is an excellent visual tool on queen development.