Simple Queen Rearing honey, bee（简单的皇后抚养蜜,蜜蜂）.pdfVIP

Simple Queen Rearing By Nick Withers This is aimed at the less interventionist kind of beekeeper, perhaps the ‘garden’ beekeeper with say, 1-3 colonies. Why do it? You will want to ensure you have young queens in your hives to give maximum vigour and minimum swarming. You will have to use one of the colonies to raise the queens without rendering it useless for honey production. You will probably only want to raise 1-3 queens or a few more for friends if you wish. The method must ensure a good quality queen is raised but to be simple the queen cells will be emergency cells raised from larvae selected by the worker bees. As described there is no need to find the old queen. For success you must know (or look up) the timetable for the development of a queen bee. Development of a Queen Bee Day Stage egg laid 1 egg 2 egg best queens are reared as queen cells from eggs or very 3 egg young larvae 4 larva 5 larva 6 larva 7 larva oldest larva that can be reared into a queen cell sealed 8 larva 9 pre-pupa 10 pre-pupa 11 pupa