Pleez ignore the beeginning of the (fwd) message.
The rest is for those interested in an easy way of raising
their own queens, altho I will bee the first to admit that
I've never raised a queen, nor requeened, in 37 consecutive
years of apiculture. I prefer letting the bees do it
themselves, since they have millions of years practice.
jack
**John Iannuzzi, Ph.D.
**38 years in apiculture
**12 hives of Italian honeybees
**At Historic Ellicott City, Maryland, 21042, U.S.A. (10 miles west of
Baltimore, Maryland) [9772 Old Annapolis Rd - 410 730 5279]
**"Forsooth there is some good in things evil
For bees extract sweetness from the weed" -- Bard of Avon
**Website: http://www.xmetric.com/honey
**Email: [log in to unmask] [1jan981031est]
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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 08:42:20 -0500 (EST)
From: John Iannuzzi <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: How 2 Raise Queens at Home
Your question: Now what do you think about bees and sheep mixing?
My answer: The offspring is a <shepbee>.
New topic.
You asked about queen-raising at home. Here's an
easy method dug out of the <British Bee Journal>, sep 97, p 167:
[thanks to John Romanik, BeeBeard King of Maryland w/ 111 performances]
Take 4 frames from a broodchamber: one w/day old eggs, one w/developing
brood (that is, capped and uncapped), a two w/pollen and honey--making
sure that the queen is NOT taken in the process. Replace the 4 removed
w/drawncomb.
Put the frames into a 4-frame nucleus.
Shake bees, from the parent colony, into the nuc
until it is nearly full, again making sure the queen
is not shaken in.
After a week, the bees in the nuc will have raised 2 or 3
emergency queen cells. A feeder of weak syrup is put on
the nuc. Presto! After about 3 weeks the nuc is full of
bees and a young queen!
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Do bees and sheep mix?
>
**John Iannuzzi, Ph.D.
**38 years in apiculture
**12 hives of Italian honeybees
**At Historic Ellicott City, Maryland, 21042, U.S.A. (10 miles west of
Baltimore, Maryland) [9772 Old Annapolis Rd - 410 730 5279]
**"Forsooth there is some good in things evil
For bees extract sweetness from the weed" -- Bard of Avon
**Website: http://www.xmetric.com/honey
**Email: [log in to unmask] [1jan981031est]
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