Have I Lost My Queen?
Where's the brood gone? They Are Not Necessarily Queenless When I was a beginner beekeeper, I thought I knew most things about the noble art of 'bee bothering', but I was wrong. In my case, the beginner years were the…
Tag: Replacing Queens
10 x 10 Queen Production
Queen Honeybee by David Illig https://flic.kr/p/nCMgZU The Chosen Ones I have some great queens in my hives. My best one is a "yellow dot" in her third season. Her hive is always one of my tallest, giving me loads of…
The Perils of Late Supersedure
supersedure_cell For those that do not know, which probably means all non-beekeepers, supersedure is what happens in a beehive when the bees make a new queen to ultimately replace the existing queen. The other way of doing this is by…
Regicide in the woods of Vermont
brood factory nucleus colonies I’m back home in Blighty after a wonderful stay in Vermont, a very pretty corner of the USA near the border with Canada which reminded me of parts of Scotland. Instead of whisky they have a…