my mistake!

[adrian wilford]

went into the bees to check on queen cells, took off those with eggs and larva in, following day noticed a swarm emitting from the hive, so i thought well ok, occassionally you can miss one, so hived the swarm, gave it week to see if i could find the opened queen cell. oh dear!!! by the way i am on double brood, looked in the top box and took out the queen cell riaser bar out!! and 11 queens had emerged wow!!! forgot i had put the bar in, maybe improved recording keeping comes to mind

 

[Queens59]

Silly question ...what is a queen cell riaser bar ? TY

 

[rockdoc]

and how does it work? One for you PH?

 

[adrian wilford]

its a bar with cells cups on with eggs in, and you put this in a semi queen less hive so the bees draw the eggs out into queens.

 

[Drew]

its a bar with cells cups on with eggs in, and you put this in a semi queen less hive so the bees draw the eggs out into queens.

What is semi-queenless ?

 

[enrico]

With 30 hives you certainly need better records!!!!! Oh well! Queens anyone?

 

[For want of a better word]

What is semi-queenless ?

Sort of a 1/2 way AS.....
queen + some brood in bottom brood.. queen excluder then another brood box atop with sealed & old ( over 4 days old) brood + covering attendant bees... queen raising bar with raising ups from Jenter/Nicot or dibbling go in the upped box betwixt brood for the raising of queens .
Good fun ,,... you need to try it.. then you will not to keep buying queens from foreign lands and can select for bees suitable to your style of beekeeping and you own local environment!


before you ask AS = Artificial Swarm




someone kick me off this soapbox !

 

[rockdoc]

Query, if the queen is downstairs and all the brood is 4 days+, who is going to lay an egg in the queen cups?

 

[Poly Hive]

When I did quite a few I painted my bricks in different colours per side and turned the appropriate colour to the front as a guide as to what was where.

Grafts, incubated cells, caged cells, all had a colour. Yellow, blue and red in fact but what ever suits you.

PH

 

[user 6228]

When I did quite a few I painted my bricks in different colours per side and turned the appropriate colour to the front as a guide as to what was where.

Grafts, incubated cells, caged cells, all had a colour. Yellow, blue and red in fact but what ever suits you.

PH

how is done when you 100s of hives?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Query, if the queen is downstairs and all the brood is 4 days+, who is going to lay an egg in the queen cups?

Graft young larvae into the cups