Hi, All!
I'm not too happy today. My 2nd breed queen just flew away. I was transferring her over
to another nuc box freeing some room for the virgin queen that emerged from the incubator last night. I tried to catch the big fat queen 2 times and put her back into the nuc box on a hive check. Every time she would crawl and fly out of the nuc box's side as fast as she can. A big fat laying queen has half the speed as a virgin queen. So she can get away pretty fast too!
So don't underestimate a big fat laying queen. Next time I will clip all breeder queens. Last summer around this time I step on a Cordovan breeder queen and saw the eggs oozing out under my foot. This summer another prized queen flew away. Luckily, I still have my #1 Cordovan breeder left. This time I will clip her and only do night inspection. Somehow the day inspection is not the same as night time, too many bad issues already.
I know that night time inspection she will not fly away. I know that clipping her wing she cannot fly away. So how many ways to prevent a queen from flying away while you're handling her?
Quote from: beepro on July 02, 2018, 07:43:58 PM
Hi, All!
I'm not too happy today. My 2nd breed queen just flew away. I was transferring her over
to another nuc box freeing some room for the virgin queen that emerged from the incubator last night. I tried to catch the big fat queen 2 times and put her back into the nuc box on a hive check. Every time she would crawl and fly out of the nuc box's side as fast as she can. A big fat laying queen has half the speed as a virgin queen. So she can get away pretty fast too!
So don't underestimate a big fat laying queen. Next time I will clip all breeder queens. Last summer around this time I step on a Cordovan breeder queen and saw the eggs oozing out under my foot. This summer another prized queen flew away. Luckily, I still have my #1 Cordovan breeder left. This time I will clip her and only do night inspection. Somehow the day inspection is not the same as night time, too many bad issues already.
I know that night time inspection she will not fly away. I know that clipping her wing she cannot fly away. So how many ways to prevent a queen from flying away while you're handling her?
Y'know they often fly back to box they left. Hope ya didn't put the virgin in.
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Oh no, if she does then the #1 Cordovan breeder queen will be waiting for her inside this 3 level nuc hive. Now I will have my
#1 and #2 together if they don't kill her first. All other nuc hives are all full with virgins in them now. Thanks for the reminder. No wonder she
disappeared so fast-- one zip and she's gone.