Raising Queen Cells Without Grafting

[Hivemaker.]

Blackbrood
here is a beesource thread about banking virgin queens, you might be interested in, if you have not already seen it.

http://www.beesource.com/forums/showthread.php?t=227968&highlight=queen+banking

 

[blackbrood]

no I hadnt seen that thread. it is an interesting read. It also references keeping virgin queens in a queen bank but the time period is in dispute from a couple of days to three weeks. Some thing I had not even considered.

Thanks for that

BB

 

[blackbrood]

this is another queen bank. using a solid peice of wood drilled with holes and using magents to cover then holes up with queens in?

This is the link to site/page for the instructions on how to build it which is part of the University of Minnesota, they have lots of good stuff on the uni site re bees.

click here

BB