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What really concerns me is that this must be beekeeper-induced cross-contamination, since the occurances are in different yards. I'm now getting paranoid that any one of my drawn comb...

I would not waste much time with the attendants.

I have introduce virgins (reared from cells)... if there is any trick to this it is to do this fairly quickly after the virgin has emerged. ...

most virgins can not pass thru a queen excluder unless she is unusually small or of africanize origin. <it is the width of the thorax that keep a queen or virgin queen from passing thru a queen...

I would say that the first thing I notice in your writing Barbarian is that the first manipulation was April 20 and almost exactly one month later you have what appears to be a functional extra...

well certainly as the price of queens goes higher and higher it becomes more and more difficult to off a queen unless she it totally useless. you can in certain situations and at certain times of...

welcome aboard.

a big howdy from central Texas.

an iddee snip along with my own > modification..

My method is

1.. Find and remove old queen.

2.. Remove cork to allow removal of candy and release of queen by workers. >I sometimes don't...

over the past couple of years I have use some plastic based foundation and it seems to me that the insignificant coating of wax is part of the problem (almost by definition you will need lots of less...

god's own sweetner... now how could you possible improve on that?

mother nature will alway try to fill an empty niche.
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I love his song about the Kissimmee area of Florida... I use to fish there quite a lot when I was young.

I do carry a queen breeder licenses here in Texas and I will tell you flat out with almost no hesitation that 'what Iddee said' is just how I consider thing when adding a mated queen to a nuc. for...

exactly what efmesch said...

of course I hope you understand Eddy that any real number is highly subject to being effected by other variable. for most packages and bees in cages heat is the largest and most serious short term...

well the size of the package would matter. I would NOT place these in the outmost position simply because that may create a bit of robbing but also will be outside the area when the worker's in the...

if it were me I would stack the two queenless hives and combine them (newspaper combine) with the two queen right hives. just ahead of having queens in hand I would redistribute the brood and larvae...

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I try to be a positive kinda guy

tecumseh..
as far as I can tell Perry you are a positive guy. sadly folks will take advantage of that but I myself would rather loose a few buck,...

there is nothing critical at this stage of the game... what need to be done NOW can wait till tomorrow or the next day for that matter. the idea is you want some brood in the larvae stage in the...

as Iddee suggest there is no magical time line here. I myself like to first look early to make certain the queen has gotten out of the introduction cage and then to look back again several days...

I see no mention above of feeding or the quantity and interval of feeding.

what you would need to do would somewhat to highly depend on the situation with the existing queen cells in the box. ...

we do a big bee school in Brenham each spring time and one of my first mentees in Brehnam Wayne always assist me in doing the hive inspection part of the school. he has over the past couple of years...

why not watch and tell us???? I have no idea about nectar but at least here in the fall of the year they do seem to collect a good bit of pollen from native wildflowers.

I do like Dunkel's attitude. Actually at this point I tend to consider both the positive and negative aspects of any situation in the bee yard... Dunkel is of course correct in that too often we...

you do know Tyro that exposing young children to honeybees often means a bit later in life they are preprogrammed to be afraid of nothing?

cute picture and does remind me of my own time in North...