Culling emergency queen cells

[sinya1sinya]

In a queenless split (flying bees, nurse bees, brood/eggs & open queen cells), is it necessary/advisable to 'thin' the number of Queen cells produced/sealed???
Could the hive still swarm & cast with virgins??

 

[Erichalfbee]

It depends what you have done. To my mind a queenless split has all the brood and none of the flyers in which case my answer would be thin to one good open cell and return in 5/6 days to remove any others

 

[For want of a better word]

Grandad always left four...
.... one to rot, one to grow, one for the swift and one for the crow!

Yeghes da

 

[Millet]

Grandad always left four...
.... one to rot, one to grow, one for the swift and one for the crow!

Yeghes da

After two years of trying to see a virgin queen Survive i agree.

 

[Michael Palmer]

Grandad always left four...
.... one to rot, one to grow, one for the swift and one for the crow!

Yeghes da

 

[For want of a better word]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ohI3de3xVA

Have not heard this old song for many years... will be on my list for the Rillaton "Crying of the Neck" on the harvest moon!!!

Happy days
Yeghes da

 

[Wingy]

Never heard that in relation to bees (or Q cells) but my dad used to say it when planting seeds
Wingy

 

[For want of a better word]

Never heard that in relation to bees (or Q cells) but my dad used to say it when planting seeds
Wingy

Grandad had a huge allotment... in fact he had two!
Big extended family in a slum clearance are South of London in the post war years when it was necessary to grow you own as austerity and low wages were cutting into every able bodied man's oft empty pocket.
Keeping bees was a means to getting hands on sugar that was still rationed till 1955?

So different from today???... with dad popping out to the local fatty burger house in the new BMW so his little dahlings do not have to walk on pavements... that are it needs to be said a tripping hazard at the least!!

OR queuing outside the food bank if you are not one of this disastrous so called governments privileged few!

Perhaps the song was to do with planting beans after all!

Yeghes da

 

[Anduril]

According to Dr David Tarpy, the bees will thin them. Young Regality - A day in the life of a young Honeybee Queen, on YouTube, National Honey Show. I think it was 11 minutes in.

 

[maddydog]

Four seeds in a row, one for the rook,one for the crow, one will wither and one will grow.

Whichever grandad sang, still a lovely phrase

 

[Millet]

Never heard that in relation to bees (or Q cells) but my dad used to say it when planting seeds
Wingy

I was not aware that Swifts ate seeds

 

[yeogi75]

Grandad had a huge allotment... in fact he had two!
Big extended family in a slum clearance are South of London in the post war years when it was necessary to grow you own as austerity and low wages were cutting into every able bodied man's oft empty pocket.
Keeping bees was a means to getting hands on sugar that was still rationed till 1955?

So different from today???... with dad popping out to the local fatty burger house in the new BMW so his little dahlings do not have to walk on pavements... that are it needs to be said a tripping hazard at the least!!

OR queuing outside the food bank if you are not one of this disastrous so called governments privileged few!

Perhaps the song was to do with planting beans after all!

Yeghes da

sugar rationing finished in 1953 that's when my ration book ended, and toffee apples was the first to start the ball rolling ,and company's started giving away sweets.

anyway back to queen cells if you have to get rid of queen cells I always keep mine and let them hatch out in mini mating nucs to see how good they are.