subject: Things To Remember When Raising Queen Bees For Your Beekeeping Business [print this page] If you are into beekeeping, it is impossible for you to take for granted the fact that queen bees play an important role in the colony. This is why you have to understand how you can rear queen bees for the colony to continue existing. You can have more than one colony in your beekeeping business but you can only have one queen bee for each colony.
Queen bees are the sole responsible in laying eggs to have future generation of bees. In general, queen bees are anticipated to exist for approximately 5 years but most of the beekeepers choose to put back their queen bee after two years because this method is found to be effective in rearing bees. As the queen bee grows older, there is a little chance for her to lay eggs. This is the reason why you need to restore her as early as possible or else you will not have enough honey bees in your colony in the future.
Proper rearing of queen bees can help you a lot in your beekeeping business. Bringing fresh queen bee into your colony is not only satisfying in the sense that you will have more honey bees which can produce high quality and tasty honey. It is also because you can start to increase strong bees that will help you make disease challenging colony that will trim down the risks of diseases and pests.
Following are some of the important things you need to know once you decide to rear queen bees:
Consider productivity, disease resistance, pest resistance, gentleness and hardiness when rearing queen bees
. The following things will help you fight the occurrences of pests and diseases which hinder you from having more honey bees that can produce more honey in the future.
Nourish your queen bees with syrup to ensure they will grow healthy and productive.
You should have an unfilled dark brood comb into you breeder hive where you can put the eggs. The moment they turn into queen cell cup, you can put this to well-built colony.
Remove the accomplished cell and put one cell at the back where you can restore the queen. Make sure to keep queen cell warm.
Choose healthy drone to mate with the queen when it is time for quenning again.
Remember that there should be a temperate weather when queen bees are prepared to mate or else she will begin to set unfertilized eggs.
The best time to rear queen bees is during the spring season. This is because nectars and pollens are abundant.
Following the above considerations will make you successful in raising queen bees that will produce productive honey bees.
