Swarm Control - clipping wings

[Tom Jay]

Once a Virgin returns from a mating flight and she is laying the wing or sometimes both come off..

Whose wing/leg are you pulling there?

 

[For want of a better word]

Once a Virgin returns from a mating flight and she is laying the wing or sometimes both come off..

Some flying ants do that ???.... it explains a lot about the insects some look after and probably why they do not get a lot of honey.... although I did see a film once about honey ants!!!

 

[Karsal]

So is the Q permanently stuck to the magnet until discovered there then? Or have I missed something?

No.

The two opposites attract so you make sure the two alike poles of the magnet face each other which repels and flicks the queen back into the hive.

LOL!!

 

[Finman]

Once a Virgin returns from a mating flight and she is laying the wing or sometimes both come off..

But the queen has 4 wings.

 

[For want of a better word]

No.

The two opposites attract so you make sure the two alike poles of the magnet face each other which repels and flicks the queen back into the hive.

LOL!!

Another reason for polly hives.... no ferrous nails.... but I thought the Thrones queen catcher was a magnet on a stick.... the **** is iron???

Has anyone actually used one???

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

the **** is iron???

Has anyone actually used one???

What? an iron ****? I heard that Catherine the great occasionally used mahooosive ivory one

 

[For want of a better word]

What? an iron ****? I heard that Catherine the great occasionally used mahooosive ivory one

DISC...... got to have been the best typo ever !!

 

[Millet]

But the queen has 4 wings.

Mine don't..well they did but they don't now..

 

[For want of a better word]

Mine don't..well they did but they don't now..

 

[Finman]

Oh dear....

 

[Tom Jay]

I really had hoped for a flood of responses from Northern beekeepers saying "No of course we do NOT clip queens' wings in these parts!" but, oh never mind.