[swamprat]

Im looking fro a good book on raising queens.does any one have a favorite.

 

[Jesse]

Bee Sex Essentials by Lawrence John Connor

Successful Queen Rearing by Dr. Marla Spivak

Queen Rearing and Bee Breeding by Harry Hyde Laidlaw

In that order

 

[RayMarler]

By far, the best one-stop resource for queen rearing for me is here...
http://www.bushfarms.com/beesqueenrearing.htm

Has all five books by the original masters (well, 4 are from the original masters of the method) for the different standard? methods for rearing queens...Alley...Smith...Miller...Doolittle (today's commercial grafting)... Hopkins.

 

[blueskybeesupply]

"Queen Rearing Essentials" is the newest book by Larry Conner. VERY GOOD! Plenty of color pictures. Highly recommended.

Larry also published a reprint of Doolittle's "Scientific Queem Rearing". A classic. I have an original copy from 1889, but this is a great reprint.

However, RayMarier is right. MB has a great resource he is offering on his site and you can't beat the cost.

 

[Jim Stevens]

I have to agree with blueskybeesupply, "Queen Rearing Essentials" by John Conner is a very good one to add to your colection.
Jim.