Queen Rearing The Hopkins Method

摘要

The Hopkins method of rearing honey bee queens is perfect for the beginner (and, many argue, for the experienced as well)beekeeper. It requires the leastamount ot queen rearing equipment and calls tor the least handling ot eggs and other tragile bee stutt! Your first task is to get the eggs from your breeder queen. Fortunately, you do not need any special gear to do this! You just need a frame of drawn foundation. Ideally, it is empty (no brood, pollen or honey.) Go to the hive with your breeder queen and locate the brood nest and remove a full frame of capped brood from the center of it (you can use this to populate your Starter Hive (see below)). Replace the removed frame with your empty frame of drawn wax. You have just given the breeder queen a whole slew of open slots to lay in.