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direct released 4 queens today
« on: August 17, 2015, 12:32:11 am »










I'll keep you posted how they are doing.They are virgins,so they still have to come back from a mating flight.
I don't know.It was like that when I got here.

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Re: direct released 4 queens today
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2015, 12:53:49 am »
Jb Fill us in, were they requeens, nucs to winter? Being virgins did you just release them in the hive / nuc? or put her in the colony in the cage a few days ago and released her now. Did you leave the receiver colony queenless for a time?
Thanks for sharing. Please share more. Thanks.
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Re: direct released 4 queens today
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2015, 06:29:31 am »
Wow, really dark queen. 8)
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Re: direct released 4 queens today
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2015, 10:23:53 am »
Some of those virgins like to fly away if given a chance.....I hope yours did not do that.   Good luck with those queens.  :-)

Lauri Miller, on another bulletin board, says she sometimes puts virgin queens or (ripe queen cells) in a queen-right hive and lets the virgin kill the old queen, then mate.  It would save tearing the hive apart to find the old queen.  A (just hatched) virgin queen will not begin to produce any pheromones for 12-24 hours, and the bees ignore her.  Has anyone here tried this method of requeening?
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Re: direct released 4 queens today
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2015, 12:22:45 pm »
Nope, but I have taken virgin queens that have just hatched and let them walk via the front door into hives that needed them.
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Re: direct released 4 queens today
« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2015, 11:50:27 pm »
Nope, but I have taken virgin queens that have just hatched and let them walk via the front door into hives that needed them.
Awesome feat Perry!  It takes a lot of nerve to do that.....
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Re: direct released 4 queens today
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2015, 01:38:23 am »
One was a nuc. and 3 were into honey supers above a queen excluder.I read about some one else doing that, so I thought I'd give it a try.If I have eggs and brood in a couple of weeks then I'll move them into nucs.The yellow jackets have killed 3 of my nucs so far and I thought being in a better defended hive they may have a better chance.
I don't know.It was like that when I got here.

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Re: direct released 4 queens today
« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2015, 05:34:19 am »
I have been doing this myself this year.  basically allowing queen to emerge in cages and them tossing them in some nuc.  I have gone to the effort of hooking up a sprayer with water and just a bit of vanilla and mist the adults bees down right before I open up the caged queen.

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Re: direct released 4 queens today
« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2015, 12:37:58 pm »
So your reverting back to the old days, right tec. 8). Jack  :laugh: :laugh:

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Re: direct released 4 queens today
« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2015, 01:17:22 pm »
great pix jb!  good luck, keep us posted!
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Re: direct released 4 queens today
« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2015, 01:09:49 am »
Good to hear from you all.I will try to get some new pics on Sun. :)
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Re: direct released 4 queens today
« Reply #11 on: August 22, 2015, 10:26:18 pm »
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These are the queens I put in nucs as queen cells.I have 3 out of 8 left so I put robber screens on them tonight.They were installed 2 weeks ago so they should be bread.I looked in the honey supers for the ones I direct released, but couldn't find then.I didn't feel like taring down one more levle to look for them so I'll look another time. Cheers.   :)













So these are 3 different queens. 8)
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Re: direct released 4 queens today
« Reply #12 on: August 23, 2015, 12:23:38 am »
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I have 3 out of 8 left so I put robber screens on them tonight

Did you use the queens ease where or sell them or have they been robbed out or absconded or the queen lost before showing up mated.
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Re: direct released 4 queens today
« Reply #13 on: August 23, 2015, 09:25:38 am »
Yes I think they were robbed out by Y.J.'s. :sad:
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