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Making queens!

4/26/2015

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   All of those nucs are now filled with bees. 20 + nucs made up today after splitting 6 hives down and using queen cells produced using the cell punch method.
   I made up 24 cells using the method outlined under the Queens section. 18 of those cells were accepted and capped when I pulled the bar this morning. the 6 queens in the full sized hives were last years queens, so they are one year old overwintered queens. The rest of the nucs recieved a queen cell.
   It is looking like I may be going to OK to help a friend deal with 400 hives he has on Canola next week, so I will have to wait to get back to see how many of these queens mate successfully and return.
   See Yall in May!
   Keep your bees happy!
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Steve Lawson link
6/9/2015 06:45:37 pm

Enjoyed your site, especially the posts about punch out queen rearing.

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