Opening apideas

[TryingToLetThemBee]

Learnt that you have to attach the entrance QE firmly; mine appear to have dislodged it and absconded. Now lots of drones and a bunch of chilled brood. Frustrating.

 

[B+.]

please reference it if you can, I did a quick search on Woyke and he's authored or coauthored so much I couldn't find this specific.

The reference I referred to was actually Buchler http://www.coloss.org/beebook/I/instrumental-insemination/4/2?searchterm=mating+nuc
The reference to Woyke was about direct release of queens to aid sperm migration in the next sentence.
I agree. Jerzy Woyke has done a huge amount of work in this area.

 

[For want of a better word]

B+... when queen banking do you use the standard type "Hair Roller Cage" or the one that can allow workers to get into the queen.. the small matchbox size that has two positions... queen excluder and worker excluder... sliding contraption?
#What I am asking is should the worker bees be able to touch the queen to groom her??

Have you read anywhere about how much semen the queen will receive from drones in open mating... sometimes it seems that 8 microlitres is not enough in II.

Sorry not an answer to the OP!

Yeghes da