Hello,
I made my first 10 small mating hives and the first mated queens are "waiting" for my actions! I would like to know if i can introduce a queen bee in cage without attendants. Mating hives and queenless colonies are in the same yard, so there is no time of mailing and transfering.
Thanks
Thomas,
Lots of breeders do not put attendants in the queen cage. When you get a battery box of 25 queens, the bees are not in the queen cages, they are in the box that holds the queen cages.
Jim
Just yesterday I released a virgin queen into a hive that lost their queen due to robbing.
I placed her in the cage on the top of the frames. Bees slowly came out to check her out. After they covered the cage, I moved then away with my bare finger with no problem. Then I opened the cage and placed her on the top of a frame. Several covered her to the point she could not walk. Again I was able to move them off. She then was able to walk into the hive.
This hive was queen less for several days.
Jim
We were able to requeen a laying worker hive by placing a mated queen into a push in cage. We did not shake out the hive. After 4 days the workers had burrowed under and we're taking care of her. We also used this method to requeen a hive where the queen didn't return from her mating flight. I highly recommend it, as the queen can start laying and emit her pheromones prior to her release and I believe has a higher rate of acceptance.
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>I would like to know if i can introduce a queen bee in cage without attendants.
I don't usually worry about it, but actually it is better to NOT have attendants when you introduce a queen. Some people go to great lengths to remove them.