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Beekeeping => Raising Queens => Topic started by: Les on May 10, 2017, 02:20:51 pm

Title: I heard her, I heard her!
Post by: Les on May 10, 2017, 02:20:51 pm

So excited.....first time I heard a queen piping!  I was digging thru the frames looking for any sign of the newly hatched queen when I heard her.  Immediately stopped and closed the hive back up. 

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Post by: Jen on May 10, 2017, 02:31:47 pm

The Coolest Ever Les!

I would like to know just what it means when the queen is piping?
 

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Post by: blueblood on May 10, 2017, 02:33:19 pm

Cool isn't it!

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Post by: Les on May 10, 2017, 03:19:02 pm

Jen, maybe it's a warning......If there other queen cells in the hive.  "I'm coming for you" LOL

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Post by: Perry on May 10, 2017, 04:18:36 pm

 :yes: :yes: :yes:
They are announcing their presence, calling one another out!

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Post by: rober on May 10, 2017, 08:31:52 pm

I got a shipment of 14 queens yesterday. they were piping in the battery box.

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Post by: Green bee on May 10, 2017, 08:39:26 pm

https://youtu.be/xK8fEPsAc6U

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Post by: riverbee on May 10, 2017, 09:37:44 pm

very cool les!  don't you wish you had a sound recording of it?!  i always manage to miss getting this on video or digital recording.

and what perry said ............

" :yes: :yes: :yes:
They are announcing their presence, calling one another out!"

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Post by: Green bee on May 10, 2017, 10:13:04 pm

Is it the queen in the cell making the noise? Does anyone know why they do it ?

Title: Re: I heard her, I heard her!
Post by: Les on May 11, 2017, 08:51:50 am

They can pipe in their cell or when they are out wandering around the frame.