On Sunday, June 22, we met at Kristien’s house to graft the cells for Round 3 of the queen rearing project. We first checked on the nurse nucs we had made up on Saturday. The deep nuc still seemed strong; however, it did seem that some of the bees had flown back […]
We installed our Q3 nurse hives today: In Liz’s medium queen castle: 1 frame of 50% capped brood, 1 frame of 20% open brood, some pollen, nectar and one frame with nectar honey. Shook in extra bees from Liz’s california queen hive and at Krz’s place from the […]
From Michael Bush website http://www.bushfarms.com/beesqueenrearing.htm He states that emergency queen cells may be inferior if they are made from cells on old comb: Emergency queens: “It has been stated by a number of beekeepers who should know better (including myself) that the bees are in such a hurry to […]
Day two (june 21, 2014): preparing the two nurse nucs 0830 at Liz’s house (Krz need to pick up eyeglasses at 0800 first): putting medium frames and nurse bees in one nuc. Waiting closing nuc off. Going over to Krz yard. Meeting Mel and Todd, preparing another nuc with deep […]
