We are into our queen rearing season full speed now that the daily temperature is consistently warm and our mating nucs have larger populations since several brood cycles have passed. Our 4th grafting was completed this past Friday. We once again we grafted from our Sue Cobey (Cobey11-40) Carniolan breeder queen …
Our queen rearing season usually runs from the 1st week of May to the middle of August.The recent cold Spring evenings have been tough on our grafted cells from sessions 1 & 2. Depending on how well the new Carniolan & Russian queens lay we may have some queens for …
We have completed 7 grafting sessions – so far we have grafted approximately 400 eggs this season. Yesterday was day 6 of the Cloake Board method for grafting session 7. I had to remove the slide and close the main entrance which was originally rotated 180 degrees on day 3. …
We have been selecting our queens as they get mated and begin laying, culling any that don’t measure up. We alternate the graftings of each breeder queen, so Russians and Carniolans are ready in batches. We expect to have queens ready on the following dates: June 29th July 6th July 12th …
Our 1st Russian Queens are laying nice solid patterns and we have begun to send them to their new homes. We have a few of these left for anyone in immediate need. Russian Queens from our 2nd grafting are also laying well and we will be evaluating them next week. Last …
It has been a most frustrating spring with unrelenting rain and cold nights. Our earliest efforts at queen rearing were unsatisfactory but now Russian queens from our first grafting should begin laying early next week. In addition Russian queens from our second grafting should begin laying the first week of June and Carniolan queens …
This afternoon we ended another busy week with Mary climbing a ladder to retrieve a swarm near one of our yards. Since the evenings have been cold and damp and the days have been getting rain a number of hives have swarmed. Earlier in the week at an apple orchard …
On Day 6 we had to check the results of our 1st grafting and had to remove the Cloake Board slide and close the rear entrance of the cell builder. Our new queen cells are looking great. We used an old golf umbrella to protect the bees from an unrelenting …
Tuesday was an exciting day. We grafted our first Queen cells of the season. We had already set up a cell builder colony and closed off the top to produce a queenless swarm condition. The artificial queen cells had been polished by the bees, and our selected Russian Breeder Queen …
The recent storms moving through here hampered our efforts at starting our 2011 queen-rearing program. However, I was able to make my selection of a Russian Breeder Queen in the last few days. She is a daughter of a Russian Breeder originally obtained from Glenn Apiaries of Fallbrook, CA several …
Mary is viewing the grafting frame with 3 rails. The top two rails hold the New World Carniolan queen cells and the bottom rail holds the Russian queen cells. This is a wonderful view with new queens covered with many young worker bees, two days after the grafting. By tomorrow …
We decided to do one final queen grafting for the season. In the top picture Mary is grafting newly hatched eggs from Sue Cobey’s New World Carniolan breeder queen. We turned off the air conditioning in the house about an hour before Mary began the grafting so we would not …
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