There are many ways to produce queens.This is a our way, including grafting, cell building and cell introduction into mating nucs.
The absolute best time for producing queen cells is during swarming season. That's when colonies are really ready to make cells and is usually when they're in their peak condition. That being said you can make them anytime the drone population and weather is good enough for mating.
Incubator:
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Grafting tool:
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Cell protectors;
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Cell cups:
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Feeder:
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References:
Standard methods for artificial rearing of Apis mellifera larvae
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THE QUALITY OF HONEY BEE QUEENS FROM QUEEN CELLS INCUBATED AT DIFFERENT TEMPERATURES
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An Introduction to Queen Honey Bee Development, Penn State Ext.
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WHY would u want any artificially inseminated queens when u clearly want to save and supprt the bee population, its contradictive and goes against nature. Just NO to anyone who dont do this the natural way its just facepalm tbh. cut away all the fake stuff, specially when u deal with bees, there can, and is, stuff u use to inseminate in one way or another that will alter the queen a tiny bit.
I respectfully disagree. There is actually nothing natural about having honey bees in this country. They are not native. Adding desirable traits to your stock by bringing in different genetics can be advantageous if done mindfully. Although not usually done artificially, look at crosses in the human race. If you are in to reading bee books, check out what Brother Adam writes about mixing races in "Beekeeping At Buckfast Abbey.
Because of the prevalence of Africanized bees. They are dangerous and not fun to work with. Once they are in your area it is likely that any virgin queens will mate with them.
@@stevenb2022 I am very thankful that we don't have them.
The area I live in has mostly Africanized wild bees. The African bee gene is very dominate. So AI is idea if I’m making my own queens and want to avoid breeding the Africanized gene.
I agree.
I agree totally with the open brood to keep the bees producing I do it by inserting continuous grafts, never letting the girls shut down
Дорогой Боб. 3 мая сделал все как ты сказал. Сегодня должен был достать маточники. К сожалению у нас холодно. +9 градусов. Я немного поднял прививочную рамку и увидел много маточников. Завтра +13 буду доставать маточники и ставить в нуклеусы. С большой благодарностью к тебе за науку пчеловодства. Огромное спасибо тебе. Dear Bob, on May 3rd I did everything as you said. I had to get the queen cells today. Unfortunately, it's cold here. +9 degrees. I lifted the vaccination frame a little and saw a lot of uteruses. Tomorrow +13 I will take out the queen cells and put them in the nucleus. With great gratitude to you for the science of beekeeping. Thank you so much.
Not sure why im using this comment box to admit this but i just think bob is such an inspiration to beekeeping. His methods of delivering information and devoted efforts to add in credible texts in his videos goes unmatched. I have learned much over the years from your videos sir and while i explore other beekeepers online i always come back to you. Stay diligent my friend you help so many keepers of bees. Cheers Justin, Canada Alberta
Thanks and stay warm up there.
I've watched a bunch of other queen rearing videos just to get people's perspectives, but I got way more out of this one than out of all the other ones put together. So far I've watched it twice and I keep getting more out of it. Bob is an incredible professional and an incredible teacher. The information is so dense that it took me a couple of hours to watch it, because I kept having to pause the video and absorb what he just said before moving on to the next piece of information. I almost never take notes, but I've taken 4 pages of notes. Thank God for Mr. Binnie and for KZhead. This is priceless.
Thanks for the comment, it came at a time when I was wondering if I should keep trying to make these videos.
@@bobbinnie9872 Then I'm glad I expressed myself. Please keep making them!
@@bobbinnie9872 please don't stop making videos!
@@bobbinnie9872 yes Bob please keep making videos. You have soooooo much knowledge and I’m sure there’s thousands of other beekeepers that are depending on learning as much as possible from you. I know I am!!! Thank you for all the videos you have done so far and please continue!! Lorie
I as well, I have watched 3 times already and am watching again. I don’t know about the rest of you however I have a lot to learn and am very grateful to those like Bob that are willing to share their experiences and knowledge 👍 Thank.
the idea of isolating the queen on one frame is a stroke of genius
Just did my first graft with 45 cells using mostly this method. Thank you Bob for this and all your videos. AMAZING!!!
I LOVE how you quote researchers and use strong science in your operation. Seems like a lot of beekeepers buy into myth and legend more than they should. Keep it up!
Ever so gently “nervous laugh” pick up the queen LOL
Ian I see you have watched this video more than once also. lol This makes my fourth or fifth time. :-)
Right 1.200 bucks yikes ...great video tried this method back in September made couple grand quick ...
Great video! You give wonderful information and always positive and encouraging
You like the Bob Ross of bees calm and intelligent. Glad you are taking the time to make these videos really appreciated
Not only do you explain what you do, but most importantly, you explain the WHY. Thank you. Definitely a part of my “saved” library!
Thanks
Bob, this video by far is the best that I’ve ever seen on grafting. My hat is off to you! I only try to keep 5 to 7 hives as a hobby to produce honey for my immediate family and a few friends. I’ve only bought 1 nuc and 1 other queen so at this point I don’t see myself doing any grafting but I will definitely remember this video incase I decide to give it a try. Thanks for your videos and I can’t wait to taste your sourwood honey in about one week.
Thanks.
A greatly detailed video that made me excited to try crafting my own queens! We lost a few last year. I want to start learning on how to make my own. It will save a lot of money for sure. Thank you Bob for taking the time to teach us👍
I have tried and all work just fine. For first attempt 9 from 15. I hope next round will be even better😊 Thanks, Bob Binnie! You made my day!
Hello Bob. This is my third or fourth time watching this video now. Same goes for your series with Chris Werner & family... There is so much quality information. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos!
Hello, I live in Turkey. I am a beekeeper as a hobby. I have about 20 hives. I have been producing my own queen bees for 2 years. this year I applied a method similar to yours. but there are very important details in your method that will increase success. I follow your videos with pleasure and interest. I learned a lot from you. thank you very much for everything. I wish you continued success.
Thank you.
Hello. Bob. I just started beekeeping 2 months ago and would like to mimic how you do it in my apiary in Korea. And thanks for what you said. It encourages me alot. Skill will come with time, skill comes with practice. Last of all, thank all of you for taking the time out of your life to make informative videos about beekeeping and to share your experience.
I'm so thankful for all these guys and those that started doing this many, many years ago. Helping get bees propagate and giving new people the opportunity to continue the art of beekeeping.
Thanks Bob my 1st attempt at grafting your way this week and got 21 out of 30 so a big 👍to you and your team. Cheers Dan from Aussie land 🍻🍻
I really enjoy your videos. You have the calm, clarity, speaking voice and general demeanor of a VERY good teacher. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.
I am a new beekeeper and have been attempting to catch swarms in western Washington. If this doesn't work, i will be purchasing packages next spring from local apiaries. I thank you for your videos and your knowledge sir. I have watched many videos and taken courses prior to getting the bees. I have finally collected enough materials and equipment to feel secure for the first year. We watch your equipment building videos too as my husband is a carpenter and is teaching me to make our own equipment. Your are a wonderful teacher and your knowledge and teaching style is amazingly easy to follow and understandable. Thank you, thank you. Maybe a mentorship program would be a next step for you?
You are the mentor every beek needs and rarely gets. I know your time is precious and am grateful for your first hand knowledge and experience. Loved the references also. Thanks to KZhead, you won't have to spend your retirement writing a book! (Though we all would benefit from that too!)
Thank you.
Defiantly one of the best if not the best video on Queen rearing I have seen, very concise and full of information. Thank You Bob. The Canadian Beekeeper Ian Steppler has a very good video on this too but his technique is different.
I watch Ian a lot and his technique is excellent. Thanks.
Kind of you to say Truth Seaker🥂
If you watch Bobs Technique, and watch mine, you see all those basics that we are targeting, but our process is different because we manage different conditions and need to satisfy different requirements . Excellent content Bob❤️👍🇨🇦
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog Well said, Thanks
@@aCanadianBeekeepersBlog oh come on Ian! This is the internet, you're supposed to say Bob's method is wrong since he doesn't do it exactly the same as you. Enough of this "different conditions" palaver... Back in reality, it's really nice to see the two best Beekeeper’s Mentors on KZhead supporting each other. You are in completely different environments, but apply deep logic to the conditions to get amazing results, and really explain your reasoning clearly enough that we can understand the principles and be able to apply them to a different environment. Thank you both!
Bob, I have gone back and looked at his numerous time now. I appreciate it as I'm now confident enough to try my hand at it myself now. God bless you and keep doing what you're doing. It does help others I promise!
Thank you. I am watching you build nuc. Big operation.
Bob, I actually have a video request. KZhead has videos on starting a successful business, and videos on beekeeping; but very few that put the two things together. If you had the chance to talk to your younger self from 45 years ago, wanting to make your living from beekeeping, I bet you could say a lot about both. If you can this winter, would you mind doing a long video on that topic? In fact, you could probably do a series. I bet a lot of people would benefit. I sure would! I keep bees because I love working bees. To me, the business side of what I want to do is boring. But I know that it's absolutely critical if I want my bees to feed my kids and pay my bills. So I devour all the good advice I can get. Sean Govan Honeydrop Farm
I could listen to you teach all day. Your style and demeanor are relaxing all while boosting our confidence. Truly appreciate every video you release
Thank you.
Great video Bob, thank you.
I like how your methods have a complicated start but are way easier in the end. Thank your for sharing.
You have exceptional teaching manner, easy to understand and pleasant voice calming example in Presence of your students and bees. Thank you ,you help so many more than you will ever know by your videos contributions.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and wisdom with other beekeepers
Thanks for the video with step by step information making it clear
One of the best methods for raising queen cells, and one of the best videos on the matter i've seen, thx Bob
Just do it. Failing helps us learn. Gonna give it a shot this spring. Thanks Bob!
Bob thank you for the great Video’s, the education I get from you guys on this channel is awesome and can’t thank you enough.
Thanks for the video. With your help and others I successfully grafted my first queens this year.
Blown away by the detail and quality of your videos. 👍
Thanks.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom
Excellent treatise on the whole process! Thank you for posting it.
Thanks.
Soaked sponge trick. Had to figure that one out myself last year when my humidity was around 50%. Put the sponge in, humidity climbed to around 78% and my success rate went up dramatically. Thanks for the call out in the video!
Well done, great explanation on everything, will be trying it next year.............
This is a great story. Thank you very much for sharing
Fantastic video, Bob. THANKS for sharing!
Thanks.
The BEST of many queen reading videos I’ve watched on KZhead - thanks Bob!
Thank you.
Even though I've been rearing queens for a while. I still like watching these how to's. There were a few tricks I'd not heard before.
So happy when you’re videos pop up in my feed
Makes me happy too. I enjoy doing them, it's my new hobby.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thank you for posting this and your excellent explanation of each step, along with citing your quotes and stuff. Mahalo plenty!
Thanks a lot for this video. very interesting.
Interesting video, as always. Nice to se many ways of making queens around the world.
Very informative video! Thanks for sharing.
You make such great educational contenta about beekeping. I am really glad i found your channel.
Good stuff Bob ! Thank you!
Great video, thank you for sharing this knowledge!
I love your videos. Very informative and helpful. Great work and thank you!
All love from Lebanon, I'm amazed and captivated by your work ❤
I think my brain is going to pop... what bunch of education to adsorb... Timing is everything... thank you for sharing
This is the best video on making queens that I have seen. Really excellent.
Thanks.
Fantastic video. Easy to understand and follow.
Thanks.
Wow what a great video but at this point I am not ready for all this . I have a great man that I am purchasing all my supplies from at this time but down the road I may try this . I am trying to watch all your videos. I would love to have one of your nuc boxes they look very well built . Please keep up all these great video. Thanks Gene
Very insightful and interesting
Bob keep the great videos coming.
Hi Mark. Doing my best, I'm slow at it.
Thank you for providing this content. I appreciate it.
Thanks.
*GoodFunVideo* thanks for sharing this content. 👍
Thank you kindly Super excellent tutorial video Appreciate
probably the best tutorial ever on queen raising; thank you so much for putting all those parts together. so many doubts i had you just cleared. thanks again and cheers from southern france
Thank you.
Hello 👌 looking forward to using this technique 🚧🤔 thanks 😎
Thank you Bob for posting this video its very use full. Last few years I was using different method to produce my queens but I'm planning to use this your method which seems productive and use full.
Thanks, I hope it works well for you.
Thank you for posting this video. It was very informational and educational . I may try it this way. I bookmarked this video and will go over and over again.
Thanks.
Bob - this was one of the most helpful videos I have seen on the subject of raising your own queens. You provided a huge resource to us viewers on this one. Thank you so much. You perspective on the whole spectrum of beekeeping is one of the most enjoyable and practical ones I have found and I find myself constantly referring to information that you have put out. So many people put up opinions based on only experience, but you link knowledge and solid science with your experience and that provides me and my operation with an invaluable resource. Thank you so much!
Thanks for the comment.
Thanks, great video. Good to see another way of producing queens.
Thanks.
Very informative video!
A real pleasure to listen to you and your presentation, I feel I have learned more by listening to this one video than heaps of others. Have subscribed and will be following you with anticipation. Keep up the good presentations. Peter.
Thank you.
Great video!!! Well produced and thoughtfully presented. Perfect reference for a beek wanting to start breeding. Thanks.
Excellent video Bob, like you said there are a lot of queen videos out there but you have just made one of the best. Well explained, thanks for sharing this with us.
Thank you.
I will try your technique soon this days and I'm pretty sure it will help me rise my best queens. Thank you so much Bob, for sharing your hardly gained and invaluable for us experience. Wish you all the best!
Thank you.
Thanks for sharing this. Very helpful.
Glad it was helpful.
Thank you Bob for the most helpful video on grafting that I have ever seen. I have been grafting for two years now and I have learnt much from you that I will incorporate for next year. Tim from England.
The home of Brother Adam. Thank you.
Very good.. greetings from New Zealand
Hi Bob You are doing a fantastic job Up to now you have given the best commentary about Queen rearing especially the humility factor etc, I’m in the U.K. so weather is not the best early on in the year, Il have to sort an area up that can be used to start Queen rearing I like how you split up the frames, Iv not seen this way before If you can make more videos that would be fantastic Keep up the good work sir
Bob. This is absolute gold, for a guy like me, just starting my grafting career. Thank-you so much for putting together such a great video on your process. Sadly, I can only click "like" once.
Thank you.
Hey I have to say thank you for teaching/ showing how to use the double screen board for splitting hives. It works like a charm and the success rate for accepting a new queen is 100%, which is much better than my previous method that I use. I live in Oregon and we have about a hundred hives and I would like to increase that to 300. My issue is always in the winter where 30% of my hives die sometimes. I would like a video how you overwinter bees in a climate like Oregon. Thanks Bob!
May I ask what is the cause of your winter losses? I assume that it's not the sub-zero temps. The double dividing board is a great tool for many things.
@@russellkoopman3004 so about 15-20% of the hives die by October 25 due do absconding, wasps and honey bees robbing. The other 10-15% die due to mites... I think due to having lots of wasps honey bees abscond...
I'm hoping to have time to make a video on prepping for winter. I used to live in Oregon and overwintered OK. The region I'm in now isn't much different for overwintering and we do OK as long as we do everything I know we should do. That's the trick, finding the time to do everything I know we should do.
@@bobbinnie9872 Will be looking forward to your video on overwintering, this video was excellent 👏 filled with knowledge thank you for the effort
@@JamesBakerOhio Thanks.
Very informative video. Well done and thank you.
Thank you.
This was a great video .. I'm considering Bees thank you for all the work you do to get us queens ...
Really good video! Can't wait to apply some of this information on cell building to my apiary next year. Thanks for all the details!👍
Thanks and good luck.
As always excellent video I really appreciate you taking the time. I know with as many bees as you have you don't have much time. I always learn something from you each time. Keep them coming there a great joy and help.
Thanks.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. You did a excellent job producing this video very easy to understand and covered each step thoroughly. ☆☆☆☆☆
Thanks.
Great video !
Thank you.
muchas gracias por compartir!!!
Wonderful Queen rearing video, the best so far.
Thanks.
Another great video, Thank You 🌷.
Thank you
One of the best queen production videos out there.
Thanks.
Best video on Queen rearing. Thank You Bob !
Thank you.
Excellent video, I really appreciate the effort you put into your content. I always learn something watching your channel. Thank you.
Thanks.
This is wonderful. Thank you.
Thanks.
Great queen rearing video with day by day instructions. Thanks!
Thanks.
Best cell starter finisher video I’ve seen and Ive seen them all. Love your videos Bob. I think you’ve talked me into giving it a shot. I do need to get some of those protectors though. I have the hair curlers right now and have never tried grafting. lol. Thanks again.
Thanks, good luck.
Really appreciate the education Bob, Your wood shop is very impressive. I have to battle my wife just to have half the garage for my box building. Great videos thank you.
I'm lucky enough to have a business that allows me to do these things.
Great video! Thanks.
Thank you.
A little cloakish a lil Palmer..guess it's Binnie lol I Like it Bob, Good Method!!
As long it doesn't sound like a lil BS I'm OK. Thanks.
@@bobbinnie9872 lol😂😂😂 Your Very Intelligent Bob,I'd Never insult you,best Gem on You Tube, I see people are starting to see what I noticed right from the start! Take care man!
thank you