Successful Queen Rearing

This is a companion video to our Successful Queen Rearing manual. It is not intended as a complete how to raise queens video. The manual is available on our web site at z.umn.edu/beemanual

[@satnamvirdi1968]

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[@charitablemiraclebeekeeper1200]

Thanks for the wisdom God bless Subscribe

[@JimWellman]

Clear and concise! And a few steps others fail to mention, like 10:11. Thanks!

[@PapaBee165]

My new mated queen who I purchased two weeks ago is not laying. What’s the problem?

[@جمالوعسلالنحلالبريجمال-و8ع]

Gamal ما شاء الله

[@WestChicagoPete]

Excelent video and manual. Thanks

[@nadejdastorojenko7735]

Thank you to take time to share your experience with all of us.:) I have a question: some time a few cells on a bar come out with no air cap.. Queens come out well, but the cell slook "baldi" :( Do you know what 's causing it?

[@이이-n4z8y]

Can't do any of the work, but somehow is a beekeeper!

[@baddestbees5924]

have you made any upgrade since you made this video or have you changed anything thanks in advance

[@sonuror9173]

Nice work

[@WestChicagoPete]

Very we done I ordered the book

[@brarbeefarm7938]

good vido

[@billiamc1969]

Selective breeding has made honeybees prone to diseases and pests since selection was based on honey production and lack of swarming...

[@beehinde]

BeeFriendlyApiary more importantly it is about encouraging queen rearing in your local area. Producing queens suitable to the climate in your area and not relying on queen breeders from the south, you want hardy bees. The next step would be encouraging breeding programmes within your association. Rotating the breeding to reduce inbreeding. However the downside is some beekeepers like certain strains of bees.

[@charitablemiraclebeekeeper1200]

@@beehinde How do you prevent inbreeding if you start off with 10 packages of bees and do queen rearing, all of the queens will mate with drones from original packages which is automatically inbreeding right? Please explain

[@beehinde]

@@charitablemiraclebeekeeper1200 selection in the past, when there were skeps, produced swarmy bees, any that didn't swarm were destroyed. We have changed the behaviour of bees. The package bees if open mating, the queen will mate with drones from other beekeepers, this will reduce inbreeding. If using instrumental insemination, you would get packages from different areas and cross with your selection of drones. The only other way would be to flood the area with drones of your choice.

[@charitablemiraclebeekeeper1200]

@@beehinde but the only Caucasian bee genetics in America come from the WSU breeding program so you can't just buy from different breeders because all American breeders who have Caucasian bees which isn't but a handfull got their bees from Susan Cobey

[@beehinde]

@@charitablemiraclebeekeeper1200 Your bees will be diluted with the mongrels around you. If you only want a certain type, then you will be buying in queens on a constant basis. Your main concern is keeping the line pure not inbreeding.

[@allanliu1314]

The companion manual of this video is located at - www.beelab.umn.edu/education/beekeeping-manuals

[@linr2870]

Why aren't they wearing gloves? They keep getting stung you can see it in the videos. There are much easier ways to do this without all that boxes shuffling.

[@russellmoore8187]

6:55 Marla’s hair, t-shirt, and headlamp all indicate a production date of around 1996. Such a great video! UPDATE: 13:14 I was off by 2 years 😭

[@mark-wn5ek]

Great video but that music absolutely sucks!