Rearing queen bees

Summary

As a beekeeper you may have purchased queen bees from a commercial queen breeder and have wanted to understand the process to produce queen bees or to produce your own queens.

This Primefact describes the process to produce queen cells and mated queens using two methods of ‘starting’ queen cells using queen-less hives:

  • nucleus box
  • Swathmore swarm box



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Primefact 828

Published: 01 Sep 2008