Queen Rearing

Prepare Queenright Cell Raiser Build up a double brood box or use “Ben Harden System”. Contact feed 1 to 1

Introduction We four are a study group for the FIBKA Senior exams and have chosen to rear queens as a

Background Swarming is probably the main bugbear of the beekeeper. The tendency to swarm is heritable and can be reduced

I was first introduced to Instrumental Insemination (I.I.) after Micheal Mac purchased an Instrumental Insemination Apparatus from Tom Kehoe in

Finding the Queen, marking and clipping her, has become an integral part of many beekeepers seasonal tasks. This can, however, pose a problem for beginners, as it does for some of the more seasoned…

Swarming is probably the main bugbear of the beekeeper. The tendency to swarm is heritable and can be reduced or increased by selective breeding. That’s why it always seems to me a contradiction that so many beekeepers use swarm cells to rear replacement queens.

Introduction We four are a study group for the FIBKA Senior exams and have chosen to rear queens as a

Prepare Queenright Cell Raiser Build up a double brood box or use “Ben Harden System”. Contact feed 1 to 1

The use of powerful miticides, i.e. pyrethroids in the UK and also organophosphates in other countries, is now seen as providing at best, a short-term palliative in dealing with the varroa problem.

We got great advice from Michael MacGiollaCoda about starting a bee-breeding group in Offaly in 2001/2002. Our application for ‘Genetic’