'Bout a 100 - Sideline Beekeeping SIZE MATTERS

摘要

One of the students in the class with a little prior experience with queen rearing took the techniques home an raised queen cells of his own using a very strong overwintered colony. The differences were striking. The weaker colony, even though it is in the middle of a nectar flow, did not produce enough royal jelly to create well-filled queen cells. The cells were shorter and there was only a thin layer of royal jell on the bottom of the cells. With the stronger colonies, the difference is striking.