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Take a hive in swarming fever and change the queen cell larvae from good hive. You get 100% succes in grafting. Queens will be maximum size. I have done this 20 years.

If the bees do not get enough pollen/ protein they start to eate larvae. They make larva juice and they try to save part of larvae. Bees do not tear capped brood to eate them. This is common in Finland in spring, when weathers are cold or rainy and they cannot fly to the willows. When I...

Now I understand why we do not understand each other with Fian. Espana

Yes, three levels in beekeeping, practical and theoretical and scientic. Nothing have shown that honeybees are becoming bigger or smaller. At least combs are same size. Beekeepers do not even know, how much workers weigh or how many bees are in a swarm kilo. What I know beekeeping...

I told that my hives have 8 boxes. 3 for brood and 5 honey boxes. I am not Finland. I do what I do. Seemingly everything what I try to say, do not go into your skull. I cannot talk with you. A huge gap between us. Perhaps you have nursed bees 5 years. So odd are your opinions. One thing...

I have given to queens so much space as they can use. I use 3 Langstroth boxes for brood and no excluder. The lowest box will be filled with pollen. That helps that no pollen will be stored into honey boxes. Many professional beekeeper in Finland have such method that they put an excluder...

So Fian, you say that I have sick and short living bees and I have lethal bee nursing methods. I measure my succes with big yields. What are our average honey yields, that I know with whom I am debating? good queens, big hives, good pastures. This my advice to all beekeepers.

I Have met same problem every year. One thing you have. Your stands are too high and ot lifts you honey one box higher. Put lower wooden stands. Yeah. It is difficult to get back heavy boxes. But that why you are keeping good bees. Do not take uncapped honey from hives off. You will walk in...

I am master of science in biology and I have nursed many strains of bees. I do not need to convince you, are you wrong or not. The issue, what we are now handling, where we need this kind knowledge. Englishmen want nurse their miracle original black mongrels. Russians have too " pure black...

World is full on " some debates". The queen of couse has laying limit. If the queen lays 1,5 Langstroth boxes, is very good. That is my opinion after 60 years beekeeping. If you do not select your queens, most of them lay only one box. If the hive has 9 langstroth boxes in main yield, it is...

How much it makes drone eggs with that method... in fact, as you say Not fertilizing --) drone in the worker cell I do not believe you

A queen lays 2000 eggs a day and then it gets into maind to lay ten 13% bigger eggs

A gueen makes several mating flights. It needs 1-3 good days to visit to drone swarm. Let the queen lay so much as it can. Then for August you may limit its laying. The queen has its limits. Keep the queen 2 productive years and then change it

James. Do you think that you do not have now big enough queens? All reared qurens are crafted. Do you think that sold queen are small and they should be bigger?

I have noticed in my hives, thar best queens are hybrid. For ecample an italian queen and mated with carniolan drones can be a huge layer. 50% better than italian X italian drones. Then I move the hive to the good pasture. The place can give 200% more honey than nother place. A it is not rare...

Yeah. I found from.google. 13%bigger than worker's But the queen is 40% bigger that the worker.

How the queen can make bigger eggs for the queen cell cap? How much bigger? Where are weighs?

I do not believe that story. Fact is that bees do not need bigger queens. The queen must get its abdomen into the bottom of cell when it lays. When a commercial queen breeder sells queens, the post always has one mini queen. Rearing queens in Finland or in UK is not an easy job. To get...

Normally the colony does 2 swarms. Second swarm after a week.

They realy do not need excluder. Why should they.