Grafting Honey Bee Larvae for Queen Rearing

[@ahmedbounce3053]

1:54 Great advice Sir thank you

[@framcesmoore]

Thank you I just got my tool in the mail, I going to try this, it is not so easy so I hope the new tool helps me do better and it not be so hard. Have a great week

[@thehoneycompany]

It definitely takes practice. Best of luck!

[@bavaygilles440]

Bonjour où puis-je trouver votre picking ? Merci de France. Hello where can I find your picking? Thank you from France 

[@inharmonywithearth9982]

​@bavaygilles440 the picker is called Master Grafting Tool

[@piercebeekeeping]

Great video. Thank you

[@thehoneycompany]

You are welcome!

[@kakakhankhan8529]

Great. . . . . . very good thanks for sharing ..i love bee. but i lost. . . because of swarm ......and lock of knowledge ...so i am asking. . . . if you creat the queen then queen needs others bee or so what how they will increase his colony

[@gnussbaum7030]

Excellent. Thank you!

[@thehoneycompany]

You're very welcome!

[@hectormelendez4891]

What happens if you were to abruptly stop feeding the larvae the royal jelly, and give it a normal diet midway through?

[@thehoneycompany]

The shorter the time away from nurse bees during grafting, the better. That's why I will typically graft a bar of cells, and place it in the starter before starting the next bar. We don't know the exact timing that larvae can be away from nurse bees before it harms them long-term. The nurse bees visit growing larvae and feed them often, every few seconds. Once the graft is placed in the starter, the bees will take it from there. From experience, we know larvae can handle being away for 10-15 minutes, but that it will harm them if it were a long time, like 2 hours. You can learn more about the timing in Jay Smith's Better Queens. He's probably done the most research about this topic.

[@magicdiytutorialkh]

Great sharing

[@handsomejohnjohn]

I love your video. I have some questions: So you transfer out worker bee larvae into queen cell cups and worker bees will feed royal jelly to worker bee larvae in queen cell cups,. Is that correct? if it is, how does worker bees recognize it is queen cell cups ( to me, it is just bigger plastic cells)?

[@thehoneycompany]

Good question. Yes, we transfer worker bee larvae into the queen cups. And yes, the bees recognize the type of cell it is by the size. They know to feed it queen formula instead of worker. More royal jelly, etc.

[@MohamedUAE]

Thanks for the great video. Q. Where do you buy this grafting tool online please? or what's the name of it?

[@thehoneycompany]

We got this grafting tool from Mann Lake Ltd years ago. It is called the Master Grafting tool.

[@thehoneycompany]

Here is the link to the grafting tool, as of November 2022. (They change the links often, so if it changes, somebody please repost the link.) www.mannlakeltd.com/beekeeping/apiary-maintenance/queen-rearing/master-grafting-tool/?setCurrencyId=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwk5ibBhDqARIsACzmgLQBsUKDKRRNYDZmLgdtoFoNuFDNHs0zBsvSWLOLua8kX3HmE9ZP_cgaAh-rEALw_wcB

[@MohamedUAE]

@@thehoneycompany thank you very much for the reply.

[@dougdorrer4622]

Is there a queen in the cell starter colony?

[@thehoneycompany]

Nope. We remove the queen (usually put her in a nucleus colony) so that bees feel "hopelessly queenless." Then we add the queen cells and bees quickly get to work raising queens.

[@rayhanmallik9358]

Isn't the flash light harmfull for the larvae?

[@halfcircleworkshop]

No, as long as it doesn't get hot. I use an LED magnifying lamp without issues. If it got hot it could dry out or cook the larva

[@thehoneycompany]

We haven’t noticed it being harmful. It’s a cool light.

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[@ΜιχαληςΜακριδακης]

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