queen rearing

Just to round up what has happened with the attempt at queen rearing for this season. Well, it had mixed results. My aim was to produce enough queens to have […]

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

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

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.

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