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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Tagged bee, Beekeeping, bees, Brookfield, Brookfield Farm, cells, Farm, graft, grafting, hives, honeybees, how to, ideas, Karen Bean, larvae, Maple Falls, Mt. Vernon, nucleus, nucs, Pat Ray, practice, queens, Washington
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Grafting Honeybee Larvae to Make Queen Cells
Grafting honeybee larvae to create queen cells. Continue reading
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Tagged bee, Beekeeping, bees, board, Brookfield, Brookfield Farm, cells, cloake, cloake board, cloke, Farm, graft, grafting, hives, honeybees, how to, Karen Bean, larva, larvae, Maple Falls, Pat Ray, queen, Queen cells, queen rearing, queens, rearing, Sue Cobey, Washington
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Stopping Bees From Swarming
5 methods used at the Brookfield Farm apiary to keep honey bees from swarming. Splits; adding boxes; pulling up bee brood; alternating foundation & drawn comb; & stopping honey blockades. Continue reading
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Tagged brood, cells, comb, drawn, drones, foundation, honey bees; swarm, honey bound, larva, purple eye, splits, swarming, swarms
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Eggs and Larvae For A Queen
Giving a frame of eggs and larvae to a queenless beehive. The timing and luck involved in going from a frame of eggs and larvae to a laying queen Continue reading
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Tagged Beekeeping, bees, cells, comb, congreation area, drones, eggs, frame, honeybee, Hopkins, larva, larvae, queen cell, queenless, queens, timing
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