Round Q2 of queen rearing

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June 6, 2012 Nurse hive set up:

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Bees from 3 frames of capped brood shaken into a deep. Transported to Mel and Dawn’s yard. Additional nurse bees added by shaking all the bees from my Q1 queen hive (deep, 10 frames) into the new nurse hive. Q1 queen was marked and easily found. She stayed in the Q1 hive, held onto a frame with a 3-legged screen. Added 1 frame of brood (without young larva), one frame of pollen and one frame with honey. Some mixed frames and some empty frames. 9 in total. Space for the special frame that holds the queen cup. Nurse hive closed all but a halve inch.  Set up side by side with Q1 hive. This was a mistake. Many bees flew back to the Q1 hive.

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June 8, 2014: 2 days later: young larva grafted into the cups (about 30). Source: frame of brood from split from Mel’s hive with dark queen and a frame of brood from one of Mel’s full size hives (2nd from the house, this one had a new queen, which we marked yellow).

 

Weather since: hot and humid. Nectar flow going well with clover and persimmon in the neighbors yard.