Queen Rearing with Jason Bragg

[@grounded7362]

They build up quicker in a smaller box because it takes less bees in a smaller box to keep brood warm and in turn gives the impression that there are more bees to take care of brood and the more bees their are to take care of brood the more the queen is stimulated to lay more eggs.

[@kenthompson6539]

Thanks from Ireland

[@grounded7362]

The only way you can guarantee a mated queen is through instrumental insemination and even that is not guaranteed that your bees will want here.

[@sonofthunder.]

great ,thank you,

[@cherylhurley7401]

How can i take a a corse on atifishal assemination

[@grounded7362]

There are no queen breeders. Anyone that raises queens are merely rearing queens. Due to the fact the queen mates with multiple drones makes it impossible to control the genetics for every new queen. It is not like breeding cattle where one bull is used to breed many cows. In queen "breeding" you are mating one queen with many drones. Yes you can manipulate the genetics or rather the traits to an extent but as soon as your prized breeder queen casts a new queen that does not meet your desired traits you pinch that breeder queen. In cattle when you have a prize bull and suddenly you get a new calf that does not meet your desired traits you don't kill the bull, you stop using the cow that cast the calf. Only when using the same male to breed the females can you claim to be a breeder. In bees you have no real control over the breeding stock that mates your virgin queens. You can only manipulate the traits through selection and environment. But as soon as those $500 breeder queens are shipped to a new environment the genetics are altered as quickly as the first new generation being cast by that queen just due to environment and then the drones the new queens mate with. But even the new workers genetics are altered by the environment the $500 dollar breeder queen is now living in. The weather patterns, temperature differences, barometric pressure differences, elevation alter the genetics being handed down to the next generation. Only difference between cattle and bees is the environmental impact caused genetic changes in the bees much more quickly than cattle and even humans for that matter. I purchased bees from a supplier in my own states who overwinter here and only 5 hours south of me and their bees did great in their area and produced lots of honey, ETC, but in my area they brought in so little nectar they could not sustain themselves and I live in an area known for a constant flow of nectar all summer. All we can do is raise and rear queens through environmental manipulation and selection and hope we didn't pick up a bad line from a poor drone. But if we do and then pinch the breeder queen because of it, thinking she is the issue, we may lose a lot of great new queens locally adapted to our environment with the traits we like and want.

[@bryantdavis5426]

Another great video thanks Jason

[@wataman5669]

I love the vi4