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Category: Raising Your Own Queen Bees

Raising your own queen bees so that you don’t have to buy them from elsewhere will help make your beekeeping sustainable. Your queens will head your own colonies and any surplus can be sold.

7 Jun 22 Walrus

Getting Them Mated

Kieler Mating Nucs The problem with beekeepers is that we are all cooped up for…
Beekeeping, Making Nucs, Raising Your Own Queen Bees
14 May 22 Walrus

How I Make Queens

One of my lovely queens with quite light coloured bees I'm good at learning from…
Beekeeping, Raising Your Own Queen Bees
9 May 22 Walrus

Size Of Queen Cells

Queen Cells It's only the 7th of May, and I've already done my second batch…
Beekeeping, Raising Your Own Queen Bees
1 May 22 Walrus

Queen Colour

A 2021 Queen It's a non-beekeeping day today, and we have had some much-needed rain…
Raising Your Own Queen Bees
Buckfast Home Apiary 1965
23 Feb 22 Walrus

Making Queens: Brother Adam Method

Buckfast Home Apiary 1965 (photo: David Kemp) The recent passing of David Kemp prompted me…
Raising Your Own Queen Bees
Queen Bee on comb
19 Jul 21 Walrus

They Fly?!

Photo by Boba Jaglicic on Unsplash Raising queens has helped my beekeeping enormously. I have been able to…
Raising Your Own Queen Bees
bee eggs on comb
3 Jun 21 Walrus

Virgins etc.

Eggs laid in cells as quickly as workers build them I stumbled upon a fantastic…
Nucleus Hives, Raising Your Own Queen Bees
Honey bee and apple blossom
26 Apr 21 Walrus

Optimism

Honey bee and apple blossom Here in the UK, and presumably, across much of the…
Raising Your Own Queen Bees
A 2017 queen in 2020
28 May 20 Walrus

Loving it!

A 2017 queen in 2020 The bees don't care about COVID-19; in fact, they seem…
Raising Your Own Queen Bees
Steve with Keiler Nuc
20 May 20 Walrus

Harsh Realities

Steve with Keiler Nuc There is that saying, "if it were easy, everyone would do…
Raising Your Own Queen Bees
Buckfast Breeder Queen
8 May 20 Walrus

Making Queens!

Buckfast Breeder Queen In my area, we are entering the busiest time of the beekeeping…
Raising Your Own Queen Bees
Drone
30 Apr 20 Walrus

How’s your Dronage?

Drone: Makro Freak/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.5) Drones are awesome. Everyone should love them, but…
Raising Your Own Queen Bees

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