So I was gone for 2 weeks, came home and immediately checked my hives (8), of which several were in the early stages of building queens. I cut them out and added space for the hives to grow and today they were all doing well, no signs of desires to swarm.
But I got to thinking- I need a couple hives requeened as several are feral swarms I caught and I haven’t forked the $40 a piece for new queens.
So I wondered if there was some advice on rearing a few queen cells from the one domestic hive I have to try and intro some domestic queens? Is this doable and how?
Thanks for the advice and patience-
Jethro21
But I got to thinking- I need a couple hives requeened as several are feral swarms I caught and I haven’t forked the $40 a piece for new queens.
So I wondered if there was some advice on rearing a few queen cells from the one domestic hive I have to try and intro some domestic queens? Is this doable and how?
Thanks for the advice and patience-
Jethro21