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Beekeeping => General Beekeeping => Topic started by: Jen on April 24, 2014, 03:41:52 pm

Title: Gettin 3 hives ready for new queens
Post by: Jen on April 24, 2014, 03:41:52 pm
It's raining and very windy, can't get into my hives to de-queen them until tonight. I guess I'll have to bring them, one at a time, into the warm garage tonight so I can find the queens and any queen/swarm cells.

Don't yell at me for not doing this before the arrival of the new queens. Some of the instructions I read said don't prepare your hives until the new queens arrive  ;) 8)

Title: Re: Gettin 3 hives ready for new queens
Post by: barry42001 on April 24, 2014, 04:07:33 pm
LOL  apparently there isn't a need yell......much

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Title: Re: Gettin 3 hives ready for new queens
Post by: Jen on April 24, 2014, 04:13:25 pm
Thank you Barry  ;)
Title: Re: Gettin 3 hives ready for new queens
Post by: blueblood on April 24, 2014, 04:41:40 pm
No yelling from Blue's corner...... ;)
Title: Re: Gettin 3 hives ready for new queens
Post by: LazyBkpr on April 24, 2014, 06:50:07 pm
 :-X
Title: Re: Gettin 3 hives ready for new queens
Post by: pistolpete on April 24, 2014, 10:54:12 pm
the reason you can't de-queen ahead of time is because if they are queenless for more than 24 hours they will build their own queen cells and reject the new queen.