Tag Archives: nucs

Walk Away Splits in a Bee Busy Week

Posted on May 4, 2012 by bean

The Farm Bee Yard It’s been a crazed 2 weeks. As things often do, everything bee-wise happened at once: Created 7 Nucs: 4 of these were straightforward overnight splits. 1 was an emergency “Who cares where the queen is. They’ve … Continue reading →

An Idea for Practicing Grafting Honeybee Larvae

Posted on July 27, 2011 by bean

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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Workers and Queen Cells Unite! Adventures in Queen Rearing, Part 2

Posted on July 10, 2011 by bean

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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Over-night beehive splits – what a difference a day makes this spring

Posted on May 2, 2011 by bean

Weather changes during the making of over-night splits at Brookfield Farm in Maple Falls. Shots of splits being made in the sun at one of Bruce Bowen’s bee yards. How over-night splits are created to make new nucs at Brookfield Farm Continue reading →

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Making Splits With Swarm Cells

Posted on May 28, 2010 by bean

Using swarm cells with developing queens to create honeybee nucleus hives (nucs). What I look for in a queen cell: description and location. Photos from Cyberbee.net: Dr. Zachary Huang, Department of Entomology, Michigan State University. Continue reading →

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Preparing for Nucs at a 700 Colony Operation

Posted on April 20, 2010 by bean

Sorting out waxed, plastic honeybee foundation and preparing nucleus (nuc) boxes with Bruce Bowen, of Bruce Bowen’s Bees, in Mt. Vernon, Washington. Continue reading →

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