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<blockquote data-quote="Breeder of queens Koss" data-source="post: 13301" data-attributes="member: 449"><p>The easiest way is to make an artificial swarm.</p><p>We take an empty box, put an excluder grill on the bottom so that the queen cannot leave the hive. Take 1 frame with honey, 1 frame with empty honeycombs, pour water into it so that the bee does not suffer from thirst.</p><p>Next, find a strong colony - a donor. Find the queen there and set it aside so that you don’t accidentally shake her off into a new hive. The next step is to remove the central nesting frames and the bee that is on these frames and shake it off into a new hive. (this is a young flightless bee).</p><p>Next, the queen is given to them in a plastic cage for instrumental insemination.</p><p>The hive is closed and moved to the side, or taken to another place.</p><p>The old bee will return to its old place, we don’t need it.</p><p>The queen is in a plastic cage for a day or two. Then it is released, through candy or by releasing it onto the honeycomb from the cage manually.</p><p>When you release it manually, you watch how the queen is received; ideally, the bees should stand around her and pull their antennae towards her or feed her.</p><p>Then we return the frame with the queen back to the hive, wait 5 minutes and check. If there is no aggressive reaction, then everything is fine, it was accepted.</p><p>P.S. You can also stimulate it with sugar syrup so that the bees are more peaceful.</p><p> Now I will explain why this is so.</p><p>1. The smaller the number of bees, the easier it is to introduce a queen.</p><p>2. The absence of any brood does not give the bees a chance to grow queen cells from it and kill the queen.</p><p>3. A young bee accepts queens better than an old one.</p><p>4. If there is no natural flow of nectar, bees may be more aggressive towards new queens. By artificially stimulating with syrup, you can switch their attention.</p><p>We develop this colony by replacing the closed brood, which is already beginning to emerge. And periodically we look to ensure that the new queen is not replaced. (usually this happens when the genetics are too different or the transition from one breed to another) but it’s better to be safe.</p><p>I'll write another way tomorrow</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Breeder of queens Koss, post: 13301, member: 449"] The easiest way is to make an artificial swarm. We take an empty box, put an excluder grill on the bottom so that the queen cannot leave the hive. Take 1 frame with honey, 1 frame with empty honeycombs, pour water into it so that the bee does not suffer from thirst. Next, find a strong colony - a donor. Find the queen there and set it aside so that you don’t accidentally shake her off into a new hive. The next step is to remove the central nesting frames and the bee that is on these frames and shake it off into a new hive. (this is a young flightless bee). Next, the queen is given to them in a plastic cage for instrumental insemination. The hive is closed and moved to the side, or taken to another place. The old bee will return to its old place, we don’t need it. The queen is in a plastic cage for a day or two. Then it is released, through candy or by releasing it onto the honeycomb from the cage manually. When you release it manually, you watch how the queen is received; ideally, the bees should stand around her and pull their antennae towards her or feed her. Then we return the frame with the queen back to the hive, wait 5 minutes and check. If there is no aggressive reaction, then everything is fine, it was accepted. P.S. You can also stimulate it with sugar syrup so that the bees are more peaceful. Now I will explain why this is so. 1. The smaller the number of bees, the easier it is to introduce a queen. 2. The absence of any brood does not give the bees a chance to grow queen cells from it and kill the queen. 3. A young bee accepts queens better than an old one. 4. If there is no natural flow of nectar, bees may be more aggressive towards new queens. By artificially stimulating with syrup, you can switch their attention. We develop this colony by replacing the closed brood, which is already beginning to emerge. And periodically we look to ensure that the new queen is not replaced. (usually this happens when the genetics are too different or the transition from one breed to another) but it’s better to be safe. I'll write another way tomorrow [/QUOTE]
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