Brookfield Farm Beekeeper Karen Bean
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An Idea for Practicing Grafting Honeybee Larvae
A recap of our group’s queen bee grafting endeavors, and an idea on how to practice grafting honeybee larvae without a cell builder to test one’s grafts Continue reading
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Grafting Honeybee Larvae to Make Queen Cells
Grafting honeybee larvae to create queen cells. Continue reading
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Workers and Queen Cells Unite! Adventures in Queen Rearing, Part 2
Our group puts the gathered nurse honeybees and a queen cell into mini-mating nuclei (nucs) to allow the queen bee to emerge and begin to lay eggs. Continue reading
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Queen Rearing – A Sequence of Events – Part 1: Shaking Bees
Gathering nurse bees using a honeybee shaker box – part 1 of a series on our on-going queen rearing project at Bruce Bowen Bees in Mt. Vernon, Washington Continue reading
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