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Miller method is splended. You need those laborous methods if you rear 100 queen in one summer.

A huge story!

I cannot help that how my parents started me. When in England people become old, they start to dig sleletons from their gardens.

In pants

That question is a mystery to me.

Why I have explained 3 times inside one week, how many days a new queen takes to mate and start laying?

Somebody should tell them. ..

They play with odors. I do not believe that they are able to count they virgins or queen cell. Do they have math at all. If you cut off too many queen cells, bees grow more. After 60 y experince I can only say that beekeepers have skill to invent all kind of explantions the things which do...

Yes, Young swarm queen starts to lay at day 8. But now 2 queens have been one month. Broodless hive, what to do. Time to buy 2 laying queen. When swarn is 4 weeks old, it does not have much bees. Perhaps 2/3 have died in working and for their age. Better to join those swarms.

No one knows about weather, which orders mating flights. It starts to lay 10 days after emerging if weathers are good for mating.

Difficult to understand what is happening up there. Basics: A new queen is ready to mate at 7 days old. It needs 1- 3 good sunny calm days to mate. Temp must be over 20C . Then the queen lays first eggs after 10 days from birth. People love to tell about their record queens, but 2 days here...

Oh dear...

How to burn premium wax....

Thick foundations. Like in Finland our foundations are 100 g/ langstroh sheet. Bee use foundation wax to draw 50% out of cell walls.

Move the nuc to anothet apiary that flying bees do not return home.

It is worker which has pollen basket in the leg.

Virgin queen is ripe to mate at 7 days old. Swarm virgin is inside the queen cell 2 days when she waits that the second swarm leaves. Swarm virgins are ready to fly when they emerge from the cell. After swarm may have several queens. Normal queen is ready lay after 10 days from emerhing. The...

The size do not vary much. At least it has not been a problem. The workers weigh becomes 40% bigger when is it eates itself full of honey.

Bees need store space for pollen too. Otherwise they store pollen into honey combs.

The swarm has perhaps escaped from mating nuc.