If you don't see the queer, eggs are eggs for 3 days.
Go slow, little smoke. Put two frames you've checked out to give you room to find her. If the frame has eggs, shes there or next to it. Slide it over easy
A box with an excluder and a box with screen with frame of the open brood. Shake frames, she'll be on top.
Practice catching and marking drones till you get good.
If a shipped q herb is unmarked, mark her in your car or a dark room with one window.
When working on a queen, work right over the box so she'll fall in if somethi ng happens.
Requeen annually. 2018 color is red.
Older queens lay more drones and are more likely to swarm.
Queen acceptance Tony believes is better without shipped attendants.
Feed 1:1 for nuc and new queen. Give pollen, too.
Mean hive? root causes, queenless, heavy mite load, other stressors. Lack of resources, too many bees. Break up hive, requeen each.
Use soapy water to kill the hive.
Bees don't like cloudy days, windy days. If there's sun and food, the foragerager force is out of the hive.
Re-queening. Make your own this time if year.
Make sure it is truly queenless!
No brood, no eggs. Drop in a frame of eggs and wait 24 hours. If the aren't drawing out queen cells, they have a young queen.
Hole in the bittom? Trap door, the queen emerged. The new queen breaks in on the side.
Piping starts in cell and once she is out to warn others she's coming.
In the spring, you might have 2 queens at the same time.
Put in excluder, 3 days later, box with eggs has queen.
Two boxes, reverse, put on excluder. She'll be down, top is moved off and new queen is introduced.
This time of year, let them raise their queen. Need s strong hive. Don't let a weak hive raise a queen, combine and split later.
A capped swarm cell, they've already swarmed.
Losses 35-44% annually.
Sample for mites 3x late spring or after flow, early fall and early at end of winter.
7k bees to Nurse hive, 7k to forage. If you produce more bees, you'll have more honey.
Young bees and sugar water needed to build wax. The faster the build the neater it is. Give them time.
If you find capped swarm cells, the hive has 90% swarmed. Don't cut out swarm cells. From day 8-14 they are extremely fragile to bumping. These are good cells. Use them to make splits. If not successful, recombine.
Have a nuc in your bee yard st all times to pull queen or other resources as needed. Nucs will swarm quicker so take more management. Keep a queen catcher and cage handy.
Nosema is also a problem. Don't rely on fecal staining to determine if you have a problem. Need microscope. Only approved treatment is fumigillian in drench solution.
Cumafos creates sterile drones.
Go slow, little smoke. Put two frames you've checked out to give you room to find her. If the frame has eggs, shes there or next to it. Slide it over easy
A box with an excluder and a box with screen with frame of the open brood. Shake frames, she'll be on top.
Practice catching and marking drones till you get good.
If a shipped q herb is unmarked, mark her in your car or a dark room with one window.
When working on a queen, work right over the box so she'll fall in if somethi ng happens.
Requeen annually. 2018 color is red.
Older queens lay more drones and are more likely to swarm.
Queen acceptance Tony believes is better without shipped attendants.
Feed 1:1 for nuc and new queen. Give pollen, too.
Mean hive? root causes, queenless, heavy mite load, other stressors. Lack of resources, too many bees. Break up hive, requeen each.
Use soapy water to kill the hive.
Bees don't like cloudy days, windy days. If there's sun and food, the foragerager force is out of the hive.
Re-queening. Make your own this time if year.
Make sure it is truly queenless!
No brood, no eggs. Drop in a frame of eggs and wait 24 hours. If the aren't drawing out queen cells, they have a young queen.
Hole in the bittom? Trap door, the queen emerged. The new queen breaks in on the side.
Piping starts in cell and once she is out to warn others she's coming.
In the spring, you might have 2 queens at the same time.
Put in excluder, 3 days later, box with eggs has queen.
Two boxes, reverse, put on excluder. She'll be down, top is moved off and new queen is introduced.
This time of year, let them raise their queen. Need s strong hive. Don't let a weak hive raise a queen, combine and split later.
A capped swarm cell, they've already swarmed.
Losses 35-44% annually.
Sample for mites 3x late spring or after flow, early fall and early at end of winter.
7k bees to Nurse hive, 7k to forage. If you produce more bees, you'll have more honey.
Young bees and sugar water needed to build wax. The faster the build the neater it is. Give them time.
If you find capped swarm cells, the hive has 90% swarmed. Don't cut out swarm cells. From day 8-14 they are extremely fragile to bumping. These are good cells. Use them to make splits. If not successful, recombine.
Have a nuc in your bee yard st all times to pull queen or other resources as needed. Nucs will swarm quicker so take more management. Keep a queen catcher and cage handy.
Nosema is also a problem. Don't rely on fecal staining to determine if you have a problem. Need microscope. Only approved treatment is fumigillian in drench solution.
Cumafos creates sterile drones.
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