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Beekeeping => General Beekeeping => Topic started by: Jen on March 30, 2015, 10:42:45 pm

Title: Slimmed Down Queen In Nuc
Post by: Jen on March 30, 2015, 10:42:45 pm: Remember last week, when I pulled a nuc from my hot hive, and I said that I thought the queen was slimmed down or maybe she was a just hatched queen.

Here are a couple pics, what do you think?

(https://worldwidebeekeeping.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs13.postimg.cc%2Fpxru4zehv%2FDSCF2191.jpg&hash=44df3f60acf1cfa7b6a29a2dd0e7d98fc6e96221) (http://postimg.cc/image/pxru4zehv/)

(https://worldwidebeekeeping.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs13.postimg.cc%2Fedrlqouub%2FDSCF2193.jpg&hash=0b73a77029fe48569771ab79bc42fb402e0a4df8) (http://postimg.cc/image/edrlqouub/)
Title: Re: Slimmed Down Queen In Nuc
Post by: Riverrat on March 30, 2015, 11:20:56 pm: Looks like a normal nice looking queen in the photos I see
Title: Re: Slimmed Down Queen In Nuc
Post by: Jen on March 30, 2015, 11:24:12 pm: Hi Rrat, the queens I'm used to seeing from last summer where the ones I bought, Carni's, I could swear that their abdomens where so much larger... hmmm, 'maybe' those queens are larger queens genetically?
Title: Re: Slimmed Down Queen In Nuc
Post by: pistolpete on March 31, 2015, 02:12:05 am: here is a "normal" queen of mine. They vary quite a bit in colour, but not that much in size.
(https://worldwidebeekeeping.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs17.postimg.cc%2Fudrxtzyd7%2Fqueen2.jpg&hash=b872e2b6469bba75bc868a37dd26e2ac36045ed9)[/url (http://postimg.cc/image/udrxtzyd7/)
Title: Re: Slimmed Down Queen In Nuc
Post by: Perry on March 31, 2015, 07:57:15 am: I love it when the queen is so different coloured than her offspring, makes picking her out so much easier.
Title: Re: Slimmed Down Queen In Nuc
Post by: Jen on March 31, 2015, 12:51:17 pm: I've gotten keen in spotting her large thorax. The queen in this thread blends so well with with the carni bees that it is hard to spot her. I think I'm going to look into marking my queens, mainly because if your going thru a hive that is 5 deep, it takes a looong time to find her.
Title: Re: Slimmed Down Queen In Nuc
Post by: pistolpete on March 31, 2015, 08:25:18 pm: I think that you only need to find the queen once per year, that's about this time of year when you want to pull her for a Nuc and re-queen the hive.