10 - Removing Queen Cells from Cell-Builder Hives

[tingmarco1]

used for jail to captured robbers and murders .

[limesful]

interesant

[MrBeeWare]

Will you be at Apimondia in Brazil 2011?

[bweazel]

Why are they producing so many queen cells?

[ApiaryManager]

@bweazel

Take a look at the rest of the videos in the series. Malka raises queens for sale around the world

[boysselle]

HOLA argentinos!

Venden el equipo para hacer las reinas? Gracias 

[workwithnature]

Ah don't you just love watching the bees

[hmfmi]

Forgive my ignorance but can someone please educate me on this:

1. Am I correct in assuming the removal in this particular vid is for commercial purposes?

2. I just watched another vid and some comments mentioned killing the queen and introducing a new younger one, is that needed? I mean doesn't the colony determine when it's time to replace a Queen?

3. Will all of those Queens Hatch and become part of the colony or compete or whatever, if not removed?

I'm trying to learn more... Thanks

[ApiaryManager]

@hmfmi

1. Yes. Malka is a commercial queen raising operation.

2.You are describing the process of artificially replacing the queen. If you leave it to the colony, they may decide to replace the queen when it is inconveniet to the beekeeper.

3. They will be removed - see video 21 in the series.

[rchaos00001]

@rabbit2110 a queen is determined based on what the workers feed the larvae that hatches from a fertilized egg. The bees build the cell around it since they are trying to raise a queen and she will need a bigger cell.

[omgmodding]

No gloves?



[Mrmizilplix]

Nice queen cells!

[dormantreign]

I would not be able to touch that!

[TheWolfforever]

U R right

klasbadboy

[LaughingGenius]

KRISPN GIVEN QUEENS!!!!!

[bdrowe]

best not to leave them upside down for too long

[ApiaryManager]

If larvae are placed in a queenless colony for 24 hours, the bees start the cells as queen cells. They are then transferred into a box above a queen excluder (between frames of open brood) so that the cells are nursed to completion. They are then split up and placed into mating colonies (shown in Martins other video clips)

[rabbit2110]

@ApiaryManager so then a queen is determined on how he workers make the cell? Not by what the queen lays?

[ApiaryManager]

@rabbit2110 Correct.

[klasbadboy]

I think he takes them ou tbefore they hatch and either put them in a queenless hive or a nerse hive

[Kryochrysalis]

Queenopolis, so many. How do you raise them to adulthood when only one can be in the hive? Thanks for sharing.