How we set up honey bee colonies (Nieh lab)

In the video, you see that we keep the queen in a separate box. This is because the worker bees were taken from a different colony and need time to adopt her as their queen. If they are not separated, the could kill her. After a few days, however, she should become accepted and we will release her.

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[teachingbee]

There are some other videos on YouTube that show the process in more detail. Thanks for looking!

[teachingbee]

Unfortunately, our video camera does not make good closeups, but I can try to post a video of the queen separately later on.

[SuperDave999999]

very Interesting on the process of setting up a hive -- after watching this video, I'm ready to setup my own. Is there more video? -- this was too short

[PLSwimmer]

What a great project for a grad student. Thanks for sharing although we would have liked to get a better shot of the queen. We heard the queen was boxed separately and an explanation for that practice would have been enlightening. Handsome grad student. Is he single?

[sarahruns]

A riveting drama that will keep you guessing up until the very end....will he get stung?