keeping dead queens

[rockdoc]

Maybe this is an old wives tale, but I'm sure I once read that you should keep the queens you bump off in the freezer (maybe even here). The missing bit to my tale is why? Short of squishing them on a post to attract a swarm I'm not sure why you would keep them. That said, I have a few in my freezer, so answers please so I can at least justify them to the wife!

 

[VEG]

For finding another q in a hive. Pin the dead one to the top bar of a frame put lid on. Leave for a bit then supposedly the live Q will be trying to see off the dead one due to the pheromones

 

[Outlander]

So you’re keeping dead queens in your freezer but don’t know why you’re keeping them in your freezer.

You’re strange, very strange.

 

[Andre cardona]

I think you can put them in a bate hive with wax as a swarm lure some one will let me know if I'm rong

 

[rockdoc]

Strange is as strange gets, or should I say I'm a bit outlandish! Only joshing. Perhaps I've reached the age where I'm beginning to forget why I did something, now where did I say my apiary was?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Sprinkle them with icing sugar as an interesting petit fours (about the only good reason for sprinkling a bee with sugar!!)

 

[Outlander]

Strange is as strange gets, or should I say I'm a bit outlandish! Only joshing. Perhaps I've reached the age where I'm beginning to forget why I did something, now where did I say my apiary was?

My wife’s grandmother kept scorpions, Tarantulas and a range of different bugs and things in her freezer. She Lived in Texas and collected them for the science department of her local High School. I still felt it was a strange thing to do but also was watching this 80 year old out in the pasture taking out the Armadillo with a shot gun. Well was to this Brit.

 

[susbees]

I think there's still an albino mole in ours. Somewhere. And probably assorted dead queens and bee samples...although mostly they are pickled in IPA these days for dissection . But not the mole...

 

[psafloyd]

I think you can put them in a bate hive with wax as a swarm lure some one will let me know if I'm rong

Not as wrong as your spelling, Andre. But seriously, why do people put Qs in with swarm lures. How do you know which is effective?

Was reading about someone who had a dead queen, old comb, a lure and lemongrass oil in a bait box. I understand belt and braces, but surely that is going too far?

 

[fincaazul]

Sprinkle them with icing sugar as an interesting petit fours (about the only good reason for sprinkling a bee with sugar!!)

Petit Fours? Remember a delicatessan in Brum selling seasoned Bumble Bees. Went out of business. I never bought the barbequed Sparrows on skewers either.

 

[jeff4051]

Previously on youtube an American kept it in a small bottle of alcohol and using a Q tip spread it inside a Nuc to attract swarms??? ???

 

[Erichalfbee]

Previously on youtube an American kept it in a small bottle of alcohol and using a Q tip spread it inside a Nuc to attract swarms??? ???

That'll be Fatbeeman

 

[Andre cardona]

Queen Juice - Queen Juice is made by taking all your old and or unused virgin queens and placing them in alcohol. The reason this works is because of the Queen Mandibular Pheromone. Queen Juice - Queen Juice is made by taking all your old and or unused virgin queens and placing them in alcohol. The reason this works is because of the Queen Mandibular Pheromone. I googled it I'm about to trie it il let you know how I get on

 

[Outlander]

I just chop their heads off and found a use for the matchsticks. I impale them on to the matchsticks and leave them around the property, don’t work but keeps the neighbours at bay from the nutter with the bees.

 

[Bitbybit]

I must try this.