Fast! How to Introduce a Queen, See if the Hive Accepts her at the End

In this video we add an Italian Queen Bee into a Queenless Nucleus colony.
I used a risky but fast way of introducing a Queen because I was certain the colony was hopelessly Queenless.
I came back 9 days later to see if the Queen had been accepted.

[@grantreadings]

Just want to pass on something I was told as I am new to bees too. But when introducing a queen it’s better to place the cage horizontally with the exit/opened tab at the top of the cage. The reason for this I think is logical. If any of the attendants die they could possibly block the exit making it a failed release or hard for the bees to get the queen out. Thanks for the content it’s great watching others. I made a split on Friday so hoping for a successful introduction too once I check the colony is hopelessly queen less. Cheers

[@DraigwenHoney]

That’s a good way to do it. I think I’ll do that going forward. Thanks. Good luck with your split.

[@won2winit]

Good news and doing something similar as last Sunday inspected a hive to find the number of bees greatly diminished from the last fondant check. Found they had a new unmarked queen and saw no capped brood or larvae, but saw she was either dropping a single or multiple eggs in cells. So headed home to grab a 5 frame nuc then to my other out apiary to grab some frames of mostly capped brood, bees and stores. Hopefully when I go tomorrow I can see if she's a drone layer or if they have drawn any emergency queen cells from the BIAS I gave them, unfortunately this far north we are well behind and no mature drones.

[@DraigwenHoney]

This queen had a cell with two eggs in it and so did my now main colony. Luckily for me I think it was because they just wanted to lay and didn’t have the space. If she is drone layer hopefully you can get this sorted, there are plenty of mated queens to be had in the Uk now.

[@won2winit]

​@@DraigwenHoney hoping she is just misfiring being new to it and hoping to keep the genetics going as this was my first and last cut out in May last year. The honey they produced in both locations were chalk and cheese. When moved I got a Lime honey from them that won the best novice light honey and best novice entry award.

[@freemanstump9765]

All hail the queen

[@user-Sandgrounderhoney]

Are you sure you've got enough clothing on under that suit to stop u being stung 😂😅😅😅..... u can actually wear a t shirt with that particular bee suit

[@DraigwenHoney]

Yes 😆It’s just what I had on. I find if I don’t where the hood if I have one, it pushes the veil into my face

[@user-Sandgrounderhoney]

@@DraigwenHoney lol ... let us know how that queen gets on