I would like to second this, I think it would be very helpful to
exchange info on queen rearing this spring. I plan on raise as many
queens as I can get this spring and would be like to pass along
information on progress, maybe someone could point out mistakes.  I
won't start until april 15th that is when bees start returning from
california, but would like to see others post their experiences until
then. The method I plan on using is the Jenter queen rearing box, and
also try my hand at grafting.  As my first round of queens I am going to
try a swarm box and a queenless colony for cell starters, to see which
method I like best. I then plan on transfering them to queen right
colonies above queen excluders for finishing. I am going to make 5 frame
nucs out of 10 frame brood boxes for mating with separate entrances at
both ends. My bigest problem could be cold weather which could keep
virgin queens from mating.
 
I live in southwest Minnesota where the weather doesn't like to
cooperate so it will be interesting to see how many queens I do get. I
have decided to treat my colonies for nosema before I start just to be
sure the bees are  stressed from one less disease, although they my not
need it after 3 different pollinations.
 
So lets get a thread going on queen rearing.
 
Elroy
 
Aaron Morris wrote:
 
> I don't know of a queen specific discussion group on the list.  I'm
> puzzled why you just don't start a discussion of queen rearing right
> here?!?
>
> Aaron Morris