Apiary update 2
Just an update of the state of play at the apiary. We have mixed results as you’d expect and what is written here is based on the records of the […]
An attempt at queen rearing 4
Today, I harvested the QCs from the Miller frame and added them to the nucs. I was concentrating so much on cutting out the cells from the frame and pinning
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An attempt at queen rearing 3
Today (26/5/20) the queen rearing process reached the stage of creating queenless nucs in preparation for each receiving a QC. I only wanted three extra colonies so only three nucs
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An attempt at queenrearing 2
This is a continuation of the ‘an attempt at queenrearing’ blog entry. If you haven’t read that entry, go ahead and read it and this one will make more sense.
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An attempt at queenrearing
This year since we’re not teaching, I thought I’d try a spot of queen rearing. The apiary is down a few colonies so I thought I’d take the opportunity to
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