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Best image quality- Russian queen bee from Carl and Virginia Webb laying eggs in a modified Warré hive in upstate NY. Natural comb drawn by the bees without foundation.

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  • Is that red spotty thing natural, or is that so you can grab the queen?

  • I was new to beekeeping and not skilled at spotting the queen so the breeder marked her for me with that dot.

    It's common practice to clip a queen's wings so she can't fly and mark her this way. If she is replaced by the bees you will know when you see the new queen without a dot. The color of the dot also identifies the year the queen was introduced, useful for beekeepers who replace queens on a schedule.

    Now that I have some experience, I would neither mark nor clip a queen.

  • @pointydogg Aaah ok!

    Will the queen fly away and leave the nest if you don't clip her?

  • No, she will not. The queen needs her wings for her mating flight, then she will not use them until (and if) the colony becomes large and healthy enough to swarm. In that case she will fly off with a large number of bees to establish a new colony while the existing colony awaits the hatching of the new queens they created to replace her. If she cannot fly, the swarm aborts and she dies. It's a way of partially foiling the bees' natural instinct to swarm.

  • Как раз одно яичко в каждой клетке, личинка растет к зрелости в том месте. Радостно вы насладились видео, огорченным если мой русский настолько не хорош.

    If you can read English it may be better than my Russian: There is just one egg in each cell, the larva will grow to maturity in that cell.

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  • im doing beekeeping also hahah very intresting

  • @pointydogg ваш Россия велика, вероятно, моя разве им из США главным образом я говорить по-английски так да он получает трудно читать его несколько раз

  • @mafiaworld87 thats carnolians not russians russians are that colour

  • great video but i think this is not russian queen bee.... russian queen bees they are black!

  • thanx for this video,,can you tell me please about the artificial feeding of the bee?

  • great vidio

    Dav

  • Wonderful video clip! Thank you! But why the title of video is "Russian queen bee". This queen bee look like Italian bees. They have yellow or orange strips. Russian bees have dark grey colour.

    Please, see two next photos (remove * from URLs of photo):

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    Excuse me for my English.

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