What Is The Purpose Of Preserving Dead Queens In Alcohol?

[hamptor]

So, Apisbees, why do I want my bees to think they're queenright when they're not?   Is that to prevent laying workers while a new queen is out getting mated in that proverbial football field in the sky?

[Jen]

Lazy- "I love you like a sister, and even though I am from the oil patch, that jar of queen parts is nasty looking, think, "gag a maggot."
I think I will ask Lborou to keep queen soup and bring some over when I need it.

     Well Brother! You're braver than I, for I would not eat queen soup    I thought I had something very scientific in my shed all this time...  Oh Well!
 
These 29 live queen cells are what went into my queen soup.


And this queen is in that jar. She hatched out before my eyes. It Was So Cool!

HI!

[ledifni]

And this queen is in that jar. She hatched out before my eyes. It Was So Cool!

HI!

I'm ridiculously jealous right now.  I wish you had a video of that.

[Jen]

I Do Too Led! Hubby and I were just dumb struck watching this happen. I think if you go to General Beekeeping, under Raising Queens, you may see some vids of queens emerging from other members on this forum. I remember watching them this spring. I did get these 7 pics taken of her hatching tho 

[ledifni]

Ain't she lovely

[riverbee]

these are great photos jen....

[apisbees]

So, Apisbees, why do I want my bees to think they're queenright when they're not?   Is that to prevent laying workers while a new queen is out getting mated in that proverbial football field in the sky?

A couple of scenarios. You have  150 hives and have 250 queen on order to arrive to be introduced into nucs that need to be made up to except the queens. You will need to start going thru the colonies a few days before the queens arrive to get the nucs all made up. With the lures it will lessen the chance of the bees starting on making queen cells. Which will need to be removed and if the bees are in cell building mode they will be less likely to accept the introduced queen.
In the end of summer we have the fall fair to have an observation hive the queen and 3 frames with bees brood pollen and honey are removed from a colony to stock the observation hive. The observation hive is stocked on Monday and the bees and queen are not returned to the hive for a week. The hive being left queenless will start to raise queen cells.