- Joined
- Apr 10, 2010
- Messages
- 11,439
- Reaction score
- 3,196
- Location
- Stoke on Trent
- Hive Type
- Langstroth
- Number of Hives
- 6 to 8 Langstroth jumbos, a few Langstroth and National nucs.
. To use your phrase, 'I also get a grip' and produce my own queens. Due to the inclement weather in the spring every queen I produced between mid May to mid June failed to mate properly. Alot of time and resources used up for no result other than a number of drone layer nucs.
Exactly the same experience as I had.. And forced to use an incubator as a number in hives/mating nucs failed to emerge from QCs due - I assume- to some cold nights..
It's is nearly August and my first successful attempts this year in volume are July ones....
I'd love to see UK queen rearers succeed... but relying on our weather is a recipe for bankruptcy..Unless you are blessed with the Gulf Stream!