Requeening (011)

Honey Bee Obscura Podcast · Mar 4, 2021 · 14m

Everybody who has bees at some time will have to requeen a colony. You killed her when moving frames, she quit laying, a colony that swarmed didn't make a queen, you stepped on her when she fell off the frame. It happens… and now you have to requeen that colony. If she's gone it's easier than if she's there. If she's there, you got to find and replace her. Right, find her first. Good luck with that.

Then, it's where do you put that new queen in the colony and how long should she stay in that cage? Used to be, when the bees in that colony quit trying to kill her in that cage. Anymore, maybe…