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Hi All,
My first post to this list, thank you all for your interesting topics in the
past. I raised my first batch of virgins yesterday using my friend's
incubator. The problem I had was the delay in introducing the queens to mini
nucs. I got tied up with swarms, helping old ladies etc and ended up putting
the queens in about 8 pm last night. They hatched after lunch so were unfed
for up to 6 or 7 hours.
I used some bees from a local swarm and made up the mini nucs before going
to collect the virgins. About 1.5 hrs later I slipped them in to the closed
mini nuc boxes, on checking this morning 8:00am the nucs are still roaring!
I haven't released the bees yet.
Any advice on what I am doing wrong and perhaps a better method.
Regards
Ken Black
- Ken Black
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