Ever Lost a Queen in the Car

[Brian Bush]

A little tip.
Sunday I lost a new queen in the car as I tried to remove the workers from the travel/introduction cage.
The previous time I had let all the workers out of the car and had to rely on SWMBO to find the missing queen hiding in a door compartment.
This time I still had several workers flying around the car. I left them to it and returned 15mins later to find they had located the queen and were feeding her at window height. I will do this again in future. Some of the ladies can be very quick when they want to.

 

[MJBee]

Your last sentence is Soooooo true Brian

I now remove the workers in the bathroom - Loo seat down plugs in bath, shower and hand basin = no where to go but the window and fairly easy to catch her maj against the glass.

 

[Somerford]

that's how the commercial boys do it - release en mass in a room with a big window and a q/xcluder over an open one - then just pick them off apparently

S

 

[Poly Hive]

Have sat in a car with 200 queens on my lap.

PH

 

[MrB]

Have sat in a car with 200 queens on my lap.

PH

I take it you mean Queen bees!!!

 

[Haughton Honey]

Easy. Don't remove the workers.

There's no need to and in most instances it makes not one jot of difference to your introduction.

I never have and I've never had a problem.

 

[jezd]

Easy. Don't remove the workers.

There's no need to and in most instances it makes not one jot of difference to your introduction.

I never have and I've never had a problem.

I agree, why remove workers?

Never seen workers cause an issue if its a slow introduction.