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Checking Mini Nucs and final Queen Graft

July 14, 2019   /   0 Comments   /   Posted in: queen rearing   /   Tagged: beekeeping, bees, Honey, nuc, queen rearing

I have had a bear of a time getting the Styrofoam mating nucs going in early spring with the cool weather, cut and assembled these mini nucs so I can multi level them, they are half length medium frames. The […]

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Checking for Queen Mating Success

July 2, 2019   /   0 Comments   /   Posted in: queen rearing   /   Tagged: beekeeper, beekeeping, bees, Honey, honeybees

In this video I check for successful mating on some new nucs, and prepare them for the canola flow. I describe what I am doing and why, feel free to ask any questions for future videos of our sideliner operation.

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Checking Graft Acceptance and Setting up Queen Right Cell Finisher

June 26, 2019   /   0 Comments   /   Posted in: queen rearing   /   Tagged: beekeeper, beekeeping, bees, Honey, honeybees

Checking on my 2 day old larva grafts for graft acceptance, and reintroducing the queen to finish the cells in a queen-right finisher.

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June 4th – Splitting to Nucs

June 6, 2017   /   0 Comments   /   Posted in: Advice, queen rearing, Splitting, Spring

This past Tuesday we ran into some problems with our first graft, we had an early hatch in the queen cell finisher and lost half of our queen cells. When a virgin queen hatches she goes around the hives and […]

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May 20, 2017 – Grafting Queens

May 21, 2017   /   0 Comments   /   Posted in: Advice, queen rearing, Spring

Today was grafting day! To stimulate the bees to create queens which are easy to move to new hives, we use a process called grafting. This is the first year that I will be relying completely on our own queen […]

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