The old queen is easier to find due to smaller bee. In August, but let’s examine why spring requeening is Warm season, but requeening is most successful whenĪ nectar flow is on. Honey production or excessive drone production.Ī colony can be requeened at any time during the Workers, defensiveness, high swarming tendency, poor Population, excessive propolis production, laying One or more of the following: unexplained low bee Production, increased tendency to swarm or one thatĬonsider requeening if the colony exhibits Inferior stock, resulting in a colony with poor honey Queen may run out of sperm later in the season and no Weather during her mating flights is cold or rainy, thenĭrones may be scarce, resulting in less mating. Million sperm she will need throughout her life. Over a one- or two-day period to accumulate the 5 Queens in their queen cells before they emerge.Ī queen needs to mate with 12 or more drones Queens usually hatch out first and destroy larger If you let the colony requeen itself, you may end With more prolific, young queens are less likely to be A colony with an older queen is more likely Second year, with performance falling drastically Most prolific for the first year and decline during the Lay for several years, but 99 per cent of queens are Most beekeepers requeen every year to takeĪdvantage of the better egg-laying performanceĪnd productivity of the young queen. Why Requeen? Better Performance – Better Production Thumb to trap additional legs of the queen (left side)Īnd have the helper daub the paint on the queen’s 
If a helper is available to daub paint, add your left.
Minute before putting her back on the frame from Only and hold her gently for 30 seconds to one If alone, daub the paint onto the center of the thorax.Move the thumb of right hand on top of and trappingĪt least two legs (right side) with enough pressure to.
Place the forefinger of the right hand (nail side down)īelow her legs and she will quickly rest her legs on it.Thumb of left hand so that her legs are suspended. Grasp queen by the wings between forefinger and.
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