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Re: Find the queen
« Reply #40 on: May 05, 2014, 12:55:51 pm »
Good excercise here! Let's do more of this kind of stuff  :)
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Re: Find the queen
« Reply #41 on: May 19, 2014, 11:46:12 pm »




These are swarm cell queens I made into nucs. :)
I don't know.It was like that when I got here.

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Re: Find the queen
« Reply #42 on: May 20, 2014, 12:02:16 am »
I never did like Waldo! Well, my CDO always forced me to find him.  I'm sure that'll come into play soon-enough!  I do think I really like the idea of marked queens, though.

Awesome thread!  I wish I had seen this earlier!

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Re: Find the queen
« Reply #43 on: May 20, 2014, 12:06:35 am »
Cp- it took me a long time to spot queens. Now, I can find them about 90% of the time. Be patient and keep searching.
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Re: Find the queen
« Reply #44 on: May 20, 2014, 12:23:23 am »
Those are a couple of nice fatties.

I had marked all of the queens in the nucs I was selling thinking that the new keeps could find them easier. In one nuc there was four of us looking for a big green dot on her back and still had took three times through five frames. She kept hiding under bees.
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Re: Find the queen
« Reply #45 on: July 12, 2014, 04:28:27 pm »
here are a couple of my best queen.  She's two years old and currently heading up a Nuc.   The last picture does not have a queen, just a really nice brood frame for this time of year.









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Re: Find the queen
« Reply #46 on: July 12, 2014, 04:41:48 pm »
NICE! the frames of brood and honey is something for the queen and beek to be proud of. Beautiful queen!
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Re: Find the queen
« Reply #47 on: July 12, 2014, 07:05:36 pm »
Okay, so I'm guessing you make the bees wipe their feet before coming into the hive? That is some really light cappings on the brood and honey.

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Re: Find the queen
« Reply #48 on: July 12, 2014, 07:23:37 pm »
great photos pete!  thank you!  that queen, she sure is pretty, and not to mention nice and plump!  very dark, where do you get your queens, or did you graft/other method/let the bees raise?  awesome pattern and nice white wax.  how do you like the plastic frames? (not the foundation).

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Re: Find the queen
« Reply #49 on: July 12, 2014, 08:39:24 pm »
This queen was purchased from John Gates Apiaries.  I used her eggs to raise a few queens this spring, using the OTS method.  I like the plastic frames, always true and square, no assembly required, don't blow up in the extractor.  You just have to be more gentle with the ears than the wood ones.  this year I started painting the foundation with wax and it has made a tremendous difference.

The was is so white because those caps are less than a week old, also because it's a Nuc in a 10 frame deep, there is no traffic to the second box.
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Re: Find the queen
« Reply #50 on: July 22, 2014, 07:59:39 am »
Pistolpete:

That's a  nice looking dark queen.  I continue to be amazed at the different coloring of queens. 

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Re: Find the queen
« Reply #51 on: July 22, 2014, 09:56:05 am »
I'm starting to think that the bees are keeping me...

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Re: Find the queen
« Reply #52 on: July 22, 2014, 10:11:37 am »
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