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Beekeeping => Beekeeping 101 => Topic started by: Mikey N.C. on April 09, 2017, 12:17:52 pm

Title: When doing split ? ? ? ?
Post by: Mikey N.C. on April 09, 2017, 12:17:52 pm

When doing a split to prevent swarming, moving original queen with beesan resources. In parent (donor) hive if it has swarm cells and your introducing a caged queen do you destroy swarm cells , leave them or cut out and try to raise ?

Title: Re: When doing split ? ? ? ?
Post by: Mikey N.C. on April 10, 2017, 01:50:06 am

Guessing I've asked a good question ?

Title: Re: When doing split ? ? ? ?
Post by: kingd on April 10, 2017, 08:11:37 am

HI Mikey!

  I have removed the cells,just in case of one of them coming out and killing the new queen,

I do not like destroying queen cells if I don't have to, so I will cut them out and place in splits or incubate until
they hatch then place caged queens in splits.

Title: Re: When doing split ? ? ? ?
Post by: Perry on April 10, 2017, 05:26:18 pm

Always remove queen cells when introducing a caged queen.